SENECA - College of Stoic Philosophers

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THE EPISTLES OF SENECA
circa aliam mnteriam occupata
sit. Quidam adiecerunt
his partem, quam O(KOVO/UKI}V vocant, administrandae
familiaris rei scientiam. Quidam et de
generibus vitae locum separaverunt. Nihil autem
horum non in ilia l
parte morali reperietur.
11 Epicurei duas partes philosophiae putaverunt
esse, naturalem atque moralem ;
rationalem removerunt.
Deinde cum ipsis rebus cogerentur ambigua
secernere, falsa sub specie veri latentia coarguere,
ipsi quoque locum, quern de iudicio et regula
appellant, alio nomine rationalem induxerunt, sed
eum accessionem esse naturalis partis existimant.
12 Cyrenaici naturalia cum rationalibus sustulerunt et
contenti fuerunt moralibus, sed hi quoque quae
removent, aliter iiiducunt. In quinque enim partes
moralia dividunt, ut una sit de fugiendis et petendis,
altera de adfectibus, tertia de actionibus, quarta de
causis, quinta de argumentis. Causae rerum ex
13 naturali parte sunt, argumenta ex rationali. 2 Ariston
Chius non tantum supervacuas esse dixit naturalem
et rationalem, 3 sed etiam contrarias. Moralem quo-
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non in ilia the later MSS. ; non ilia B.
2 rationali later MSS. ; morali B. Bueeheler thinks that
a phrase neutrum ex morali may have dropped out " neither
'
belongs to the moral.'
3
rationalem later MSS. ; formalem B.
a i.e.,
" the management of the home."
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That is, of the various arts which deal with the departments
of living, such as generalship, politics, business, etc.
c
Frag. 242 Usener.
d Seneca " by de iudicio is translating the Greek adjective
diKaviKos, that which has to do with the courts of law,"
and by de regula the word Kcu>of'tK6s, "that which has to do
with rules," here the rules of logic. The Epicureans used for
logic Kaitovucr), in contrast with Aristotle and his successors,
who used \oyiKr]. The Latin ratio tialis is a translation of
the latter.
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