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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
