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Title

Cicero's practical philosophy / edited by Walter Nicgorski.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Nicgorski, Walter.
• Nicgorski, Walter

Description

xiii, 313 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Cicero's Practical Philosophy marks a revival over the last two generations of serious scholarly interest in Cicero's political thought. Its nine original essays by a multidisciplinary group of distinguished international scholars manifest close study of Cicero's philosophical writings and great appreciation for him as a creative thinker, one from whom we can continue to learn. This collection focuses initially on Cicero's major work of political theory, his De Re Publica, and the key moral virtues that shape his ethics, but the contributors attend to all of Cicero's primary writings on political community, law, the ultimate good, and moral duties. Room is also made for Cicero's extensive writings on the art of rhetoric, which he explicitly draws into the orbit of his philosophical writings. Cicero's concern with the divine, with epistemological issues, and with competing analyses of the human soul are among the matters necessarily encountered in pursuing, with Cicero, the large questions of moral and political philosophy, namely, what is the good and genuinely happy life and how are our communities to be rightly ordered. The volume also reprints Walter Nicgorski's classic essay "Cicero and the Rebirth of Political Philosophy," which helped spark the current revival of interest in Cicero the philosopher.

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Political science > Philosophy > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held in late 2006 at the University of Notre Dame.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cicero's De Re Publica and the virtues of the statesman / J.G.F. Powell -- The fourth virtue / Malcolm Schofield -- Philosophical life versus political life : an impossible choice for Cicero? / Carlos Lévy -- Cicero's Constantia in theory and practice / Catherine Tracy -- Cicero and the perverse : the origins of error in De Legibus 1 and Tusculan Disputations 3 / Margaret Graver -- Radical and mitigated skepticism in Cicero's Academica / Harald Thorsrud -- The politico-philosophical character of Cicero's verdict in De Natura Deorum / David Fott -- Between Urbs and Orbis : Cicero's conception of the political community / Xavier Márquez -- Cicero on property and the state / J. Jackson Barlow -- Appendix: Cicero and the rebirth of political philosophy / Walter Nicgorski.

ISBN

• 9780268036652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268036659 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012003445

OCLC

• 769430636
• SCSB-12424783

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library