Cicero: On Moral Ends

by Marcus Tullius Cicero , Edited by Julia Annas , Translated by Raphael Woolf

• ISBN13: 9780521669016
• ISBN10: 0521669014
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-20
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. Cicero is increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf's translation does justice to Cicero's argumentative vigour as well as to the philosophical ideas involved, while Julia Annas's introduction and notes provide a clear and accessible explanation of the philosophical context of the work. This edition will appeal to all readers interested in this central text in ancient philosophy and the history of ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	ix
Chronology	xxviii
Further reading	xxxii
Note on the text	xxxiv
Translator's note	xxxvii
On Moral Ends	1	(150)
Book I	3	(23)
Book II	26	(39)
Book III	65	(25)
Book IV	90	(27)
Book V	117	(34)
Index of names	151	(6)
Index of subjects	157