Seneca and Ruling Providence: Textual and Doctrinal Notes for a Recentior Reading
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Seneca, Ruling Providence, Textual Criticism, Stoic PhilosophyAbstract
This brief paper presents a complex case of the editing of the Senecan writings on Providence. The title helps to understand the Stoic worldview about this entity as a ruler of the universe. Likewise, it is essential to contrast other sources that consolidate a reading of the text transmitted in most recent manuscripts with the aim of building the cosmological framework accepted by Seneca with greater precision. Furthermore, the paper advocates for a more appropriate lesson for the beginning of the text in contrast with the usually edited version, whose authority is based on the oldest surviving codex of the Senecan dialogi.
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