Cicero the Philosopher

Twelve Papers. Edited and introduced by ---

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 Scepticism; Probabile, veri simile, and related Terms; Cicero on Epicurean Pleasures...

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Editor:Jonathan Powell
Published: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1999
Total Pages:384
Format:Book
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism > Platonism of Varro, Cicero and Virgil > Cicero
Status:Needs Review
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Summary: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 Scepticism; 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.