The essay considers the anthropological architecture of Seneca’s thought. It investigates the relationship between leisure (otium) and the world of occupations, in which we could include work. As a contemplative activity, leisure is first and foremost an end in itself. However, it is not a separate dimension, because it can give meaning to the totality of action and being, therefore to all the moments of life. It is an antidote to the waste and alienation of time caused by its fragmentation. To fully live the temporal dimension, it is necessary connecting its moments with a ‘meta-temporal’ dimension. Wisdom offers us the criteria of discernment of human and divine things. The task of the right reason (recta ratio), which has as its goal the condition of bliss, is to lead all the other arts to itself, showing them the way.
Fondazione Centro Studi Filosofici di Gallarate, Italy
Chapter Title
Seneca: otium filosofico e mondo delle occupationes
Authors
Francesco Totaro
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.14
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919