Cicero the Philosopher: Twelve Papers

by Jonathan Powell (Editor), J. G. Powell (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198152736
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	02/28/1999
Series:	Philosophical Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1560L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"A welcome collection of essays by prominent scholars..."—Religious Studies Review

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