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Luigi Speranza -- Grice e Sestio: la ragione conversazionale del fallito morale – Roma – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Roma). Filosofo italiano. He founds his own school in Rome that draws heavily on La Setta di CROTONE and IL PORTICO. S. preaches an ascetic way of life, which includes vegetarianism, and exhorts his followers – whom he called ‘Sestiani’ – to reflect at the end of each day on their moral failings – “if any.” Upon his death, his son, also called Quinto S., inherits the school, but it does not long survive him. One of the Sestiani is SOTIONE, who becomes Seneca’s tutor – Seneca himself is influenced by the school’s teachings for some time. Nome compiuto: Quinto Sestio.

 

Luigi Speranza -- Grice e Sesto: la ragione conversazionale delle sentenze trasformative – Roma – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Roma). Filosofo italiano. S. is a compiler – The “Sentences of Sesto” are mainly of an ethical nature and show signs of a variety of influences including traditional wisdom literature, and IL PORTICO. They proclaim that wisdom is attained through the conquest of the passions. – Chadwick, “The sentences of Sextus,” Cambridge. Grice: “Chomsky thought that the sentences of Sextus were ‘transformational’!”

 

Luigi Speranza -- Grice e Sesto: la ragione conversazionale del’accademico d’Antonino – Roma – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Roma). Filosofo italiano. Tutor to Antonino. Antonino regards him as something of a role model and greatly admires the morality and humanity of both his life and his teachings. Accademia. Suda thinks that S. is of the scesi only because he confuses him with Sesto Empirico!