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La consolation comme vecteur d’éducation éthique et émotionnelle. Étude chez Plutarque, Saint Basile et Porphyre

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by Stéphane FAYE, in Res Antiquae 21, 2024.

This paper aims to show that Plutarch, Saint Basil and Porphyry, in their consolatory epistles, don’t show only their compassion for their addressees. Instead, they give them a cathartic and heuristic power, as far as they serve as lamps in the night of ignorance and the forgetfulness of values, and as balms on the harshness or bruises of the soul. In doing so, they seem to be educating the sensibilities of those hearers, and their ability to react to the excitements of trial and bereavement. These authors use procedures and create content designed to heal their negative emotions, encourage them, change their attitude, enable them to better judge and adapt to traumatic events, in short, to accompany them on the road to freedom from mourning practices and unwelcome expressions of grief.


Keywords: Consolation, ethical education, emotional education, late antique authors
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