Dirección espiritual y tanatología filosófica en las cartas de Séneca a Lucilio

Spiritual Direction and Philosophical Thanatology in Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius

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  • Jorge Antonio Bárcena Reynoso Universidad de Guadalajara

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i35.820

Abstract

The present article is an analysis on the preparation for death in light of the practice of Stoic spiritual direction in the letters to Lucilius. The main intention is to examine the philosophical and therapeutic tenets of Seneca's philosophical thanatology within the framework of his psychachogy, that is, the “art of leading the soul” through the development of a new disposition towards life and death. On account of this, I will examine the resources employed by the spiritual director in an effort to guide the apprentice through a progressive understanding of two thanatological horizons: 1)  the value of death and 2) the transience of life. These are psychcagogical resources that Seneca uses with the purpose of teaching others to free themselves from the fear of death and to live coherently a mortal and full life. 

Author Biography

Jorge Antonio Bárcena Reynoso, Universidad de Guadalajara

Ph.D., Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona.

Associate Professor, ITESM, Campus Querétaro, Department of Education and Humanities.

Ethics and Political Philosophy. History of Philosophy.

1) Bárcena, J. A. (2022). «Lo que de continuo te he aconsejado medita y ponlo en práctica»: sobre los ejercicios espirituales en el epicureísmo en Fuerte, A. (Ed.), Filosofía y espiritualidad: reflexiones desde la tradición filosófica en diálogo con el presente (pp. 13-30). Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Unidad de Apoyo Editorial.

2) Bárcena, J. A. (2018). ¿Libre para qué? Sobre la liberación del espíritu y el cultivo de la voluntad en la filosofía de Nietzsche. Signos Filosóficos, vol. XX, núm. 39, enero-junio, 2018, 144-171. 

 

 

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2025-03-14

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Bárcena Reynoso, J. A. (2025). Dirección espiritual y tanatología filosófica en las cartas de Séneca a Lucilio: Spiritual Direction and Philosophical Thanatology in Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius. Valenciana, 18(36), 159–187. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i35.820

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No. 36 (2025): Valenciana, julio-diciembre 2025

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