Cicero S Ideal Statesman In Theory And Practice

Author : Jonathan Zarecki
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780934709

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Cicero's Ideal Statesman in Theory and Practice by Jonathan Zarecki Pdf

The resurgence of interest in Cicero's political philosophy in the last twenty years demands a re-evaluation of Cicero's ideal statesman and its relationship not only to Cicero's political theory but also to his practical politics. Jonathan Zarecki proposes three original arguments: firstly, that by the publication of his De Republica in 51 BC Cicero accepted that some sort of return to monarchy was inevitable. Secondly, that Cicero created his model of the ideal statesman as part of an attempt to reconcile the mixed constitution of Rome's past with his belief in the inevitable return of sole-person rule. Thirdly, that the ideal statesman was the primary construct against which Cicero viewed the political and military activities of Pompey, Caesar and Antony, and himself.

Author : R. E. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521065016

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Cicero the Statesman by R. E. Smith Pdf

This book is a critical description of Cicero's political life and influence during the last years of the Roman Republic.

Author : Daniel J. Kapust,Gary Remer
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299330101

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The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory by Daniel J. Kapust,Gary Remer Pdf

Cicero is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western political thought, and interest in his work has been undergoing a renaissance in recent years. The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory focuses entirely on Cicero’s influence and reception in the realm of political thought. Individual chapters examine the ways thinkers throughout history, specifically Augustine, John of Salisbury, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, and Edmund Burke, have engaged with and been influenced by Cicero. A final chapter surveys the impact of Cicero’s ideas on political thought in the second half of the twentieth century. By tracing the long reception of these ideas, the collection demonstrates not only Cicero’s importance to both medieval and modern political theorists but also the comprehensive breadth and applicability of his philosophy.

Author : Giuseppe Ballacci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349952939

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Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric by Giuseppe Ballacci Pdf

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric, as it was discussed by Plato, Aristotle, and above all Cicero and Quintilian, who ambitiously attempted to bring them together creating an ideal that is at the roots of the humanist tradition. It then moves to twentieth-century political theory and shows how the questions that emerge from that quarrel still strongly resonate in the works of key thinkers such as H. Arendt, L. Strauss, and R. Rorty. The volume thus offers an original contribution that locates itself at the intersection of politics, rhetoric, and philosophy.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521348358

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Cicero: On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would survive, Cicero here handed on the insights of an elder statesman, adept at political theory and practice, to his son, and through him, to the younger generation in general. De Officiis has often been treated merely as a key to the lost Greek works that Cicero used. This volume aims to render De Officiis, which was such an important influence on later masterpieces of Western political thought, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. A wholly new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and all the standard features of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, including a chronology, select bibliography, and notes on the vocabulary and significant individuals mentioned in the text.

Author : Richard Edwin Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:6720926

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Cicero the Statesman by Richard Edwin Smith Pdf

Author : Gary A. Remer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226439334

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Ethics and the Orator by Gary A. Remer Pdf

“Succeeds admirably in showing how the study of Cicero’s political thought . . . can still be relevant for modern debates in political philosophy.” —Political Theory For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder. Remer’s study is distinct from other works on political morality in that it turns to Cicero, not Aristotle, as the progenitor of an ethical rhetorical perspective. Ethics and the Orator demonstrates how Cicero presents his ideal orator as exemplary not only in his ability to persuade, but in his capacity as an ethical person. Remer makes a compelling case that Ciceronian values—balancing the moral and the useful, prudential reasoning, and decorum—are not particular only to the philosopher himself, but are distinctive of a broader Ciceronian rhetorical tradition that runs through the history of Western political thought post-Cicero, including the writings of Quintilian, John of Salisbury, Justus Lipsius, Edmund Burke, the authors of The Federalist, and John Stuart Mill. “Gary Remer’s very fine new book could not be more familiar or more central to contemporary politics.” —Perspectives on Politics “Well illustrates ways in which Cicero was perhaps the classical political thinker most concerned with the transcendence of the common good.” —The Review of Politics

Author : Stefano Maso
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110658668

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Cicero’s Philosophy by Stefano Maso Pdf

Cicero was not only a great Roman politician, lawyer and orator: he also dealt extensively with philosophy, which he believed constituted the surest foundation for his commitment to civic affairs. Not limiting himself to the translation of previous philosophical thought, he critically addressed central theoretical questions, and thereby made a lasting impact on Roman intellectual life. This book offers a modern guide to interpretations of Cicero’s philosophical studies, one that ranges across his numerous philosophical works. Addressed to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, and to interested readers in the humanities more generally, the volume aims to break down the boundaries between the philosophical, literary and linguistic dimensions of Cicero’s highly influential oeuvre. Stefano Maso is a full professor in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ca’ Foscari – Venice. Among his books are: Grasp and Dissent: Cicero and Epicurean Philosophy (Brepols 2015); Epicurus on Eidola: Peri Phuseos Book II. Update, Proposals, and Discussions (ed. with F. Masi, Hakkert 2015). He is co-editor of “Lexis. Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica”.

Author : Henriette van der Blom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199582938

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Cicero's Role Models by Henriette van der Blom Pdf

A study of the rhetorical and political strategy adopted by the Roman orator and statesman Cicero as a newcomer in Roman republican politics. Henriette van der Blom argues that Cicero advertised himself as a follower of chosen models of behaviour from the past - his role models - and in turn presented himself as a role model to others.

Author : Thomas N. Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300047797

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Cicero, the Senior Statesman by Thomas N. Mitchell Pdf

In this work, Mitchell brings to a conclusion his study of Cicero's political life and thought begun in Cicero, the Ascending Years. This book spans the last 20 years of Cicero's life, from the end of his consulship in 63 BC to his death in 43 BC.

Author : Jed W. Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107007

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Roman Political Thought by Jed W. Atkins Pdf

A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.

Author : Cicero
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141970936

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In Defence of the Republic by Cicero Pdf

Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This new selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic, giving an overview of his oratory from early victories in the law courts to the height of his political career in the Senate. We see him sway the opinions of the mob and the most powerful men in Rome, in favour of Pompey the Great and against the conspirator Catiline, while The Philippics, considered his finest achievements, contain the thrilling invective delivered against his rival, Mark Antony, which eventually led to Cicero's death.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977-12-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140442144

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Cicero: Selected Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archais or railing against Mark Anthony in the Philippics - The magnificent speeches in defense of liberty that cost him his life - cicero vividly evokes for us the cut and thrust of the Roman assembly, Senate and court rooms. This excellent modern translation also enables readers to understand why Cicero was for centuries a major influence on prose writers and political thinkers of ever kind. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Jed W. Atkins,Thomas Bénatouïl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9781108416665

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The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy by Jed W. Atkins,Thomas Bénatouïl Pdf

Introduces Cicero's philosophy and demonstrates its relevance to many fundamental epistemological, ethical, and political issues.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663621381

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Cicero: Selected Political Speeches by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf