Just dropping in to express my sincere thanks for your posting these thought-provoking quotes and comments, and for this particular discussion -- a topic that I have wrestled with in the past, coning to similar conclusions as you just expressed re: Christian moral philosophy. In particular, equating continuation of the embodied physical life at all costs with some kind of ethical superiority has been a notion I have found hard to accept.
FWIW, I also read Seneca's argument as, at least in part, a kind of double-dog-dare-you with an implicit "or do you have what it takes to endure the suffering?"
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Date: 2020-12-22 05:39 pm (UTC)FWIW, I also read Seneca's argument as, at least in part, a kind of double-dog-dare-you with an implicit "or do you have what it takes to endure the suffering?"