Seneca

[Anonymous No.20180080]

What is the Ethos of Seneca and what does it have to do with Catholicism?

[Anonymous No.20180085]

>>20180080
>Rei

[Anonymous No.20180238]

>what does it have to do with Catholicism?

Sweet fuck all

[Anonymous No.20180540]

>>20180238
Seneca have a great influence in Christianity, specially in St. Paul which was one of his close friends, and both admired each other. This is from one of the letters of Seneca:
>"...[Paul's works] are so lofty and so brilliant with noble sentiments that in my opinion generations of men could hardly be enough to become established and perfected in them. I wish you good health, brother."

[Anonymous No.20180569]

>>20180080
Stoic, satirical, urbane, eccentric. He's one of the few ancient writers who can make me laugh out loud, and I can't think of anything particularly Catholic about him, catholic as he was in the lower-case term's sense of "wide-raging". Gaius ridiculed him for his digressiveness, but that was the best thing about his mentality.

[Anonymous No.20180637]

>>20180540
>Scholars almost universally believe the correspondence to be forged.

[Anonymous No.20180694]

>>20180637
If scholars think one thing, then the exact opposite being the case is almost a certainty.

[Anonymous No.20180730]

>>20180637
Probably, essentially, the main interest of those letters is that they exist at all, and the alleged association with Paul.

[Anonymous No.20180814]

>>20180080
Apart from him speaking Latin and the shallow observation that the Stoicism he taught and Catholicism both have ascetic doctrines, he has nothing to do with Catholicism