Autorytet Seneki w argumentacji wczesnochrześcijańskiej

• Authors: Nehring Przemysław

Title variants

EN

The Authority of Seneca in the Early Christian Argumentation

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The analysis of the quotations from the works of this famous Roman philosopher and also some hints to them with a declaration of their authorship leads to the conclusion that his authority exceeded in the world of Christian literature far beyond the sphere of similarities between Stoic and Christian ethics. The early Church authors refer to Seneca almost exclusively in the dispute with the well educated opponents of Christianity who based their critics on the philosophical, very often Stoic tradition. Seneca is regarded in the circle of Christian Latin writers as the most important and almost obvious philosophical authority. Quoting his words in support of the arguments concerning various theological issues used to enhance the position in the debate.

Keywords

EN

Seneca; Tertullian; Lactantius; Jerome; Augustine; Rhetoric; argumentation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 49-60

Dates

published

2012-12-30

Contributors

author

Nehring Przemysław

• Katedra Filologii Klasycznej Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń Polska – Poland