Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mjrl3ugwl9
Epistolary explanations of the self: Ilija Crijević's friendship letters
Dubravka Dulibić-Paljar
orcid.org/0000-0002-3967-7604
; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
The texts analysed here are part of Ilija Crijević's private correspondence: these are his letters in prose and verse, addressed to close individuals considered to be true friends.
These texts were conceived in terms of the importance attributed to friendship (as a particular way of life) by the Ancient philosophical thought and have been analysed here by using texts of the Classical authors, especially the Roman philosophers Cicero and Seneca. Crijević's letters to friends are not philosophical texts and were not written with the intention to be understood as such, although they imply certain ethical rules for a well-led life which should equally bind both the letters' author and recipient. Moreover, it may also be assumed that the very correspondence with friends is present here as part of a single all-encompassing work on the forming of one's self as an ethic subject.
This assumption has been placed in the centre of this research, inspired by the work of Michel Foucault on the ethics of the "care for one's self" and the "technics of the self".
Keywords
Ilija Crijević, friendship letters, friendship, humanism, the ethic of care of the self
Hrčak ID:
311733
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2023.
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