Cicero the Philosopher Twelve Papers

by Powell, Jonathan

ISBN13:
9780198147510
ISBN10:
0198147511
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.

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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