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9780198152736

Cicero the Philosopher Twelve Papers

by Powell, J. G. F.
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    9780198152736

  • ISBN10:

    0198152736

  • Additional ISBN(s):

    9780198147510

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-04-15
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press
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Summary

Cicero may be best known as a politician, but he was also one of the few significant Roman writers of philosophy. Powell presents a new and exciting selection of current scholarly work on this neglected side of him, establishing Cicero firmly as a serious philosophical writer of continuing importance and relevance.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Cicero's Philosophical works and their Background
Cicero's Plato and Aristotle
Cicero's Definition of res publica
Silencing the Troublemaker: De Legibus 1.39 and the continuity of Cicero's skepticism
Probabile, veri simile, and related Terms
Cicero on Epicurean Pleasures
Cicero on self-love and love of humanity in De Finibus 3
Form and Content in the Tusculan Disputations
Cicero and the Therapists
Causes and Necessary Conditions in the Topica and De fato
Cicero's translations from Greek
`...a self-indulgent misuse of leisure and writing?' How not to write philosophy: did Cicero get it right?
Philosophical Badinage in Cicero's letters to his friends
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