20.500.12556/DiRROS-27794 Seneca’s Natural questions, Book II the oldest extant account of the stoic conception of the intention of the air This article offers a new reading of Book II of Seneca’s Natural Questions, arguing that its opening chapters preserve one of the most complete surviving accounts of Stoic pneumatology—and in particular, the theory of πνευματικός τόνος (pneumatikos tonos), or the material tension of breath, rendered in Latin as intentio. Long overlooked or dismissed as a digression, Seneca’s reflection on air reveals itself as a structured inquiry into the Stoic understanding of pneuma, material spirit, as the unifying, animating element of the cosmos. Through a close reconstruction of Naturales Questions II.1–10, this study shows that Seneca articulates a physical theory in which aer (air), spiritus (spirit), and animus (soul) are materially continuous, and in which all movement, voice, and life—human or non-human—depend on the intentio of breath. By situating Seneca’s argument within the broader history of Stoic cosmology and contrasting it with later Christian reinterpretations of intentio as immaterial will, the article recovers a lost genealogy of intention as a material and musical phenomenon. It proposes that Seneca’s account anticipates contemporary theories of atmosphere, ambiance, and Stimmung, and invites a rethinking of intention as a mode of embodied, respiratory, and poetic attunement to the world. philosophy breathing stoic pneumatology tension of breath filozofija dih stoiška pnevmatologija materialna napetost diha true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-02-25 09:23:40 2026-02-25 09:23:40 2026-02-26 03:55:11 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 1-20 no. Vol. 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-01-01 14 0038-1527 10.1007/s11841-025-01095-5 269560323 26-02-25-101-Parisi-269560323.pdf 26-02-25-101-Parisi-269560323.pdf 1 724CEFBF19FA0C346D0412C0E68F7A27 a9a851b55767cec17ae37f198f8c6df9e9bade4fe94f3fc4f298f4abe3a72f04 265287fb-1225-11f1-9cb0-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=40868 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-025-01095-5 1 4baa0469-1223-11f1-9cb0-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=40863 Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper / Centro di Ricerche Scientifiche Capodistria 0 0 0