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>De senectute, Cicero.

It's a bit different though. Roman Stoicists believe that the mind should triumph over the body. Their quest is the quest for a good, appropriated life in old age. Amery is about how aging feels and what it does to the intellect and worldview of a person. Where the stoicists imagine old age as an ideal age where the body stops bothering the intellect as it tires, he points out that as the body stiffens so does the mind.

Furthermore the Stoicists favoured suicide as an act of free will while Amery argues with the suicidical person being compelled towards the act by a transgressive impluse. He more or less places the implus leading to the act into the realm of the mystical, supralogical.
Nur so ne schnelle Frage...wenn ich anfange, Amerikanern online den Unterschied zwischen dem stoizistischen Altersideal und den Ansichten von Jean Amery zu erklären...bedeutet dies das ich wieder mal zu viel am Surfen bin? nton: