Un adelantado del neoestoicismo en España: Pedro Vélez de Guevara y sus Selectae sententiae (1557)

Abstract

This article analyses the Selectae sententiae (Salamanca?, 1557) by Pedro Vélez de Guevara (1529-1591). We seek to show that this work reflects the ideology of the Porch in matters of psychology, ethics and cosmology which, in turn, have been appropriated from Cicero who shares his stoic inclination with the contemporary generation of humanistsmagistrates (Pibrac, Montaigne, L’Hospital). We also demonstrate that his stoicism is at the service of Christianism. We finally conclude that this work represents a stage in the development of neostoicism, culminating in Justus Lipsius in the eighties