
HoP 100 - Michael Trapp and Caroline Humfress on Ancient Culture and Philosophy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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What Is the Difference Between First Order Philosophy and Seneca?
People don't write first order philosophy very much in Latin. It takes a long time for Latin to become a philosophical language. The educated elite from the first century BC onwards is bilingual. They read their Greek as well as their Latin. You get moments of things that look like first order philosophizing in Seneca, but they are really moments.
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