Open AccessO władcy i jego poddanych, czyli Gorgiasz 469 C według Seneki Młodszego
Author(s) -
Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
civitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-0353
pISSN - 1428-2631
DOI - 10.35757/civ.2011.13.08
Subject(s) - hatred , socrates , injustice , politics , economic justice , rhetoric , philosophy , anger , natural (archaeology) , literature , punishment (psychology) , sovereignty , law , theology , epistemology , history , psychology , political science , art , social psychology , archaeology
In Plato’s dialogue ‘Gorgias’, which is a polemic with rhetoric as an ability to choose the unfair, Socrates proves that it is better to experience the injustice rather than to cause it. A few centuries later, this idea was further exploited by a Roman Empire Stoic Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also called Seneca the Younger or Philosophus. The basic idea of Seneca’s political thought is hatred towards the tyranny and a simultaneous acceptance of a fair sovereign who can control his anger and look after his country. Through his work Seneca is encouraging a just life that is in accordance with god’s laws. For him, justice is the core for the functioning of a society. Seneca also claims that human relations should be based on natural reasoning rules.