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Paolo Casini, « Diderot apologiste de Sénèque », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1979.1233
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Paolo Casini : Diderot as Seneca's apologist. Diderot's Essai sur la vie de Sénèque le philosophe, published in December 1778, is linked with contemporary events, by its references to Voltaire and Rousseau. Seneca's experience with Nero is similar to Diderot's with Catherine II. Diderot is disgusted with politics and interested above all in Seneca's ethics — how to reconcile virtue with action. He refuses Stoical teaching and even questions his own systems. Emphasizing the perpetual contradiction between the sage's intellectual freedom and the general course of events, he finally reaches a sort of transcendence of virtue. He discovers that he has been all his life, unconsciously, a disciple of the Roman philosopher, and the apology far Seneca becomes a Consolatio ad Dionysium Diderot.