Themes Naturales quaestiones




contemplation of nature seneca unchains mind (quote bjornlie of corcoran translation) enabling person transcend evil, , experiencing totum of nature, develop consciousness , being more compatible direct experience of god, elevating 1 s moral nature. (p. 3 of williams , 260 of bjornlie show different translations of same passage in relation this).


god in things natural (is intramundane ), seneca:



quisquis formator universi fuit sive ille deus est portens omnium, sive incorporalis ratio, ingentium operum artifex, sive divinus spiritus, per omnia, maxima, minima, aequali intentione diffusus



to achieve existence in keeping correct manner of living (that being ethical) depended on person fulfilling existence in accordance principles of ius naturae (p. 258 ), of divine universal order lex universi (seneca - ep 76.23 shown @ p. 84-5 ), inherent in totum of nature. make 1 in agreement nature (όμολογουμένως τή φύσει).


stoics in history considered telos (goal) of efforts kata physin (according nature). participation of faculty of reason within divine order stems in part platonic thought.








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