Cicero S Philosophy

Author : Raphael Woolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1844658406

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Cicero's philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero's value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schools is unquestioned, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic explores his writings as works of philosophy that do more than simply synthesize the thought of others, but instead offer a unique viewpoint of their own. In this volume Raphael Woolf describes and evaluates Cicero's philosophical achievements, paying particular attention to his relation to those philosophers he draws upon in his works, his Romanizing of Greek philosophy, and his own sceptical and dialectical outlook. The volume aims, using the best tools of philosophical, philological and historical analysis, to do Cicero justice as a distinctive philosophical voice. Situating Cicero's work in its historical and political context, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the thought of one of the finest orators and writers of the Roman period. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic is a key resource for those interested in Cicero's role in shaping Classical philosophy.

Author : J. P. F. Wynne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107070486

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Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion by J. P. F. Wynne Pdf

Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.

Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191526398

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Cicero's Philosophy of History by Matthew Fox Pdf

Cicero has long been seen to embody the values of the Roman republic. This provocative study of Cicero's use of history reveals that rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditions. Matthew Fox looks to the scepticism of Cicero's philosophical education for an understanding of his perspective on Rome's history, and argues that neglect of the sceptical tradition has transformed the doubting, ambiguous Cicero into the confident proponent of Roman values. Through close reading of a range of his theoretical works, Fox uncovers an ironic attitude towards Roman history, and connects that to the use of irony in mainstream Latin historians. He concludes with a study of a little-known treatise on Cicero from the early eighteenth century which sheds considerable light on the history of Cicero's reception.

Author : Stefano Maso
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110661835

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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 : Jed W. Atkins,Thomas Bénatouïl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Robert T. Radford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004458642

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Cicero: A Study in the Origins of Republican Philosophy by Robert T. Radford Pdf

This book presents Cicero's natural law theory, including valuable definitions of the state, the ideal state, the ideal ruler, and the laws for the ideal state. Explanations are offered of the Greek sources of Cicero's republican philosophy, his influence on the Principate of Augustus, and his role in the development of modern political philosophy. As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero, his authority should have great weight (John Adams, 1787).

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521669014

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Cicero: On Moral Ends by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero's important work on ethics.

Author : Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199684915

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Cicero by Malcolm Schofield Pdf

This book offers an innovative account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC), a major figure in Roman politics, was the first to articulate a philosophical rationale for republicanism.

Author : Nathan Gilbert,Margaret Graver,Sean McConnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009184991

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Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy by Nathan Gilbert,Margaret Graver,Sean McConnell Pdf

Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works, from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the morality of political arguments, to the means of justifying the use of force in international relations. It features close readings of works from all periods of Cicero's philosophical career, from the threshold of Rome's civil war to the year following the assassination of Julius Caesar. For a richer body of evidence, the volume also makes use of material from Cicero's personal letters and political speeches. Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy will be essential reading not only in Roman philosophy but also for the political and rhetorical culture of the Roman Republic.

Author : Walter Nicgorski
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268158118

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Cicero’s Practical Philosophy by Walter Nicgorski Pdf

Cicero’s Practical Philosophy marks a revival over the last two generations of serious scholarly interest in Cicero’s political thought. Its nine original essays by a multidisciplinary group of distinguished international scholars manifest close study of Cicero’s philosophical writings and great appreciation for him as a creative thinker, one from whom we can continue to learn. This collection focuses initially on Cicero’s major work of political theory, his De Re Publica, and the key moral virtues that shape his ethics, but the contributors attend to all of Cicero’s primary writings on political community, law, the ultimate good, and moral duties. Room is also made for Cicero’s extensive writings on the art of rhetoric, which he explicitly draws into the orbit of his philosophical writings. Cicero’s concern with the divine, with epistemological issues, and with competing analyses of the human soul are among the matters necessarily encountered in pursuing, with Cicero, the large questions of moral and political philosophy, namely, what is the good and genuinely happy life and how are our communities to be rightly ordered. The volume also reprints Walter Nicgorski’s classic essay “Cicero and the Rebirth of Political Philosophy,” which helped spark the current revival of interest in Cicero the philosopher. Contributors: Walter Nicgorski, J. G. F. Powell, Malcolm Schofield, Carlos Lévy, Catherine Tracy, Margaret Graver, Harald Thorsrud, David Fott, Xavier Márquez, and J. Jackson Barlow.

Author : Paul Lachlan MacKendrick,Karen Lee Singh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4351293

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The Philosophical Books of Cicero by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick,Karen Lee Singh Pdf

Author : Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191507939

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Cicero by Malcolm Schofield Pdf

This book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC) is well known as a major player in the turbulent politics of the last three decades of the Roman Republic. But he was a political thinker, too, influential for many centuries in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition. His theoretical writings stand as the first surviving attempt to articulate a philosophical rationale for republicanism. They were not written in isolation either from the stances he took in his political actions and political oratory of the period, or from his discussions of immediate political issues or questions of character or behaviour in his voluminous correspondence with friends and acquaintances. In this book, Malcolm Schofield situates the intimate interrelationships between Cicero's writings in all these modes within the historical context of a fracturing Roman political order. It exhibits the continuing attractions of Cicero's scheme of republican values, as well as some of its limitations as a response to the crisis that was engulfing Rome.

Author : Matthew Fox,Senior Lecturer in Classics Matthew Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199211920

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Cicero's Philosophy of History by Matthew Fox,Senior Lecturer in Classics Matthew Fox Pdf

A provocative study of Cicero's use of history, revealing that, rather than promoting his own values, Cicero uses historical representation to explore the difficulties of finding any ideological coherence in Rome's political or cultural traditions.

Author : Raphael Woolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317532194

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Cicero by Raphael Woolf Pdf

Cicero’s philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero’s value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schools is unquestioned, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic explores his writings as works of philosophy that do more than simply synthesize the thought of others, but instead offer a unique viewpoint of their own. In this volume Raphael Woolf describes and evaluates Cicero’s philosophical achievements, paying particular attention to his relation to those philosophers he draws upon in his works, his Romanizing of Greek philosophy, and his own sceptical and dialectical outlook. The volume aims, using the best tools of philosophical, philological and historical analysis, to do Cicero justice as a distinctive philosophical voice. Situating Cicero’s work in its historical and political context, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the thought of one of the finest orators and writers of the Roman period. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic is a key resource for those interested in Cicero’s role in shaping Classical philosophy.

Author : Neal Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520911284

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Cicero's Social and Political Thought by Neal Wood Pdf

In this close examination of the social and political thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Neal Wood focuses on Cicero's conceptions of state and government, showing that he is the father of constitutionalism, the archetype of the politically conservative mind, and the first to reflect extensively on politics as an activity.