Cicero the Philosopher Twelve Papers

by Powell, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780198147510
• ISBN10: 0198147511
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780198152736
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-07
• Publisher: Oxford University 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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