Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Volume/Issue:
Volume 54: Issue 2-3
Elements of late stoic philosophy in György Rajcsányi’s spiritual work Laurus tuta
Author:
Csilla Bíró National Széchényi Library, Szent György tér 4–5–6. H-1014 Budapest, Hungary

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Pages:
309–318
Online Publication Date:
Jun 2014
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2014
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/068.2014.54.2-3.18
Keywords:
Divine Providence; Epictetus; Jesuits of Nagyszombat; Neostoicism; György Rajcsányi; Alphons Antonio de Sarasa; Seneca; spirituality of Jesuits
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The spiritual work of György Rajcsányi (1670–1734), the Jesuit teacher and moral philosopher of the Jesuit College of Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia), the Laurus tuta a fulmine seu consignatio sui in providentiam Dei, ex principiis philosophiae sanctioris potissimum desumpta (Nagyszombat 1707 and 1765) pertains to baroque Neostoic philosophy. The beginning of the eighteenth century, the so called “Indian Summer of Hungarian Stoicism” is defined by the publication of several stoical-minded works by a small group of Jesuits (János Rajcsányi, Gábor Kapi, Gergely Berzeviczi, Gergely Hidi, György Rajcsányi) acting in collaboration with the University of Nagyszombat.

György Rajcsányi professedly follows the philosophical writing of Seneca, he even refers to the first chapter of the De providentia where it talks about the natural phenomena created by God. He also cites another work of Seneca, the De vita beata, and the command found in this work, namely Deum sequere!, appears several times throughout the dissertation. The other stoic source he uses is the Handbook of Epictetus that he cites several times, too. Among the sources of the Laurus tuta there is the spiritual work of the Jesuit Alphons Antonio de Sarasa (1618–1667), working in Antwerp and Brussels. His writing, the Ars semper gaudendi, was highly popular and has been published several times, including one publication in Nagyszombat in 1676.

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  • Tamás DEZSŐ (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
  • Miklós MARÓTH (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies)
  • Gyula MAYER (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Classical Philology Research Group)
  • János NAGYILLÉS (University of Szeged)
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  • Herwig MAEHLER
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