The stoic logos between the tragic logos and the Christian logos

Resumo

Regardless of the sympathy or detachment with which one looks at the Stoic doctrine, its importance has been maintained over the centuries. This is indisputable, whether, more generally, in terms of spiritual formation, in the modelling of spiritual life; or, more specifically, in the written traits that have given rise to a vast tradition of authors and literary texts. This is mainly due to two fundamental reasons. Firstly, there is the nature of the stoic ideal of life. This is the, at least, apparent force with which a regime of life is sculpted.  Secondly, the success of Stoicism is due to the texts and the figure of Seneca – also to the circumstances of his life, which sometimes brought him closer to politics, sometimes distanced him from it. It is, above all, due to the seriousness, the existential density of his reflections, as well as the literary quality of his essays and tragedies and other texts.