Les remedia doloris chez Sénèque : exercices spirituels contre la douleur physique dans le stoïcisme et l’épicurisme
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2023
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Jean-Christophe Courtil, « Les remedia doloris chez Sénèque : exercices spirituels contre la douleur physique dans le stoïcisme et l’épicurisme », Vita Latina (documents), ID : 10.3406/vita.2023.2014
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Both Epicureanism and Stoicism proposed spiritual techniques for dealing with physical pain. For the Stoics, it is the practice of premeditation, which aims to imagine suffering in order to gradually become familiar with the idea of its necessity. This practice is part of a polemic with Epicurus, who categorically rejects it as useless, ineffective and even dangerous. However, this same criticism can be found in the work of the Stoic Seneca, who seems to speak as an Epicurean when he also states that it is useless to fear something that may not happen. In fact, Seneca distinguishes the useless and uncertain fear of future suffering from praemeditatio doloris which, properly conducted and subject to the moral judgement that identifies dolor as an indifferent, is a rational use of the imagination.