Paradox and the Fool in Seneca
D. McVane, Samuel
In this study I argue that paradox or paradoxicality in Seneca's works and the Epistulae Morales in particular provides an essential unifying foundation to Seneca's notion of ignorance, a means of its alleviation, and an important contribution to Senecan style and rhetoric. The standard Stoic conception of ignorance, as a mental state of incoherent and confused views, attitudes, and habits of thinking, anchors Seneca's Stoic works. Yet, for Se...