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The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions

Gareth D. Williams
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Description:Natural Questions is an 8-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow & hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what sets Seneca's writing apart is his insertion of moralizing sections within his technical discourse. How are these outbursts against the luxury & vice that are apparently rampant in his 1st-century CE Rome to be reconciled with a meteorological agenda? In grappling with this question, The Cosmic Viewpoint argues that he's no blinkered or arid meteorological investigator, but a creative explorer into nature's workings who offers an idiosyncratic blend of physico-moral investigation. At one level, his inquiry into nature impinges on conduct & morality in its implicit propagation of the Stoic ideal of living in accordance with nature: the moral deviants whom he condemns in the course of the work offer egregious examples of living contrary to nature's balance. At a deeper level, The Cosmic Viewpoint stresses the literary qualities & complexities essential to his literary art of science: his technical enquiries initiate a form of engagement with nature which distances readers from the ordinary involvements & fragmentations of everyday life, instead centering existence in the cosmic whole. From a figurative standpoint, his meteorological theme raises the gaze from a terrestrial level of existence to a more intuitive plane where literal vision gives way to higher conjecture & intuition: in striving to understand meteorological phenomena, we progress in an elevating direction--a conceptual climb that renders the Natural Questions no mere store of technical learning, but a work that promotes changed perspective.PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionInteriority & Cosmic Consciousness in the Natural QuestionsSeneca's Moralizing Interludes The Cataclysm & the Nile The Rhetoric of ScienceSeneca on Winds Earthquakes, Consolation & the Senecan SublimeSeneca on Comets & Ancient Cometary TheorySeneca on Lightning & DivinationRpilogueBibliographyIndex of PassagesGeneral IndexIndex of Latin WordsIndex of Greek WordsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions. To get started finding The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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0199731586

The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions

Gareth D. Williams
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: Natural Questions is an 8-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow & hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what sets Seneca's writing apart is his insertion of moralizing sections within his technical discourse. How are these outbursts against the luxury & vice that are apparently rampant in his 1st-century CE Rome to be reconciled with a meteorological agenda? In grappling with this question, The Cosmic Viewpoint argues that he's no blinkered or arid meteorological investigator, but a creative explorer into nature's workings who offers an idiosyncratic blend of physico-moral investigation. At one level, his inquiry into nature impinges on conduct & morality in its implicit propagation of the Stoic ideal of living in accordance with nature: the moral deviants whom he condemns in the course of the work offer egregious examples of living contrary to nature's balance. At a deeper level, The Cosmic Viewpoint stresses the literary qualities & complexities essential to his literary art of science: his technical enquiries initiate a form of engagement with nature which distances readers from the ordinary involvements & fragmentations of everyday life, instead centering existence in the cosmic whole. From a figurative standpoint, his meteorological theme raises the gaze from a terrestrial level of existence to a more intuitive plane where literal vision gives way to higher conjecture & intuition: in striving to understand meteorological phenomena, we progress in an elevating direction--a conceptual climb that renders the Natural Questions no mere store of technical learning, but a work that promotes changed perspective.PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionInteriority & Cosmic Consciousness in the Natural QuestionsSeneca's Moralizing Interludes The Cataclysm & the Nile The Rhetoric of ScienceSeneca on Winds Earthquakes, Consolation & the Senecan SublimeSeneca on Comets & Ancient Cometary TheorySeneca on Lightning & DivinationRpilogueBibliographyIndex of PassagesGeneral IndexIndex of Latin WordsIndex of Greek WordsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions. To get started finding The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's Natural Questions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
407
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Publisher
Oxford University Press (NYC)
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ISBN
0199731586

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