![]() Romm (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 400 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Great on Kindle Great Experience. This second aspect of the author's discourse includes an original consideration of the role of animals which appears to echo Sextian-Pythagorean views, but is organically integrated into the framework of Stoic cosmology. James Romm Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero Kindle Edition by James S. As I try to show in this paper, Seneca's paraenetic argument succeeds in combining a peculiarly Stoic concern for the respect of human dignity with a more general defense of the natural order. ![]() Given the presence of such a man-centered context, scholars have often overlooked the writer's explicit reference to the moral status of animals, although other meaningful details than the simple mention of a 'ius animantium' point out the importance of this matter to our passage. On the whole, however, the passage seems to aim at maintaining the inviolability of human rights, paying special attention to the pitiful condition of slaves. ![]() In Seneca's words, there would be a common right of living beings forbidding to perpetrate certain acts of violence. This is the only passage in which the Latin philosopher employs the juridically and philosophically significant expression 'commune ius animantium', thus referring to a form of nature-based 'animal right'. ![]() The present paper focuses on an intriguing passage of Seneca's treatise 'On Clemency' (De Clementia) dealing with the topic of human and animal rights (1.18.1-2). ![]()
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