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14 sty 2022 · Cicero’s principal work on ethical theory, On Ends or On Moral Ends (in Latin De Finibus), offers perhaps the most vivid example of his use of the sceptical method to engage critically with questions about the nature of philosophy itself.
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This chapter discusses Cicero’s views on the relation between ethical theory and the good human life, focusing on his main work on ethical theory, De finibus. Cicero’s critique of Stoic and Epicurean ethics has a common element, all the more striking given the differences between the two doctrines, namely that neither theory is livable with ...
In the next section, we see how Cicero bases his moral theory, specifically his role-centered morality, on the rhetorical concept of decorum, which demarcates Cicero’s officia as contextual and variable, changing among—and evolving within—communities.
It is essentially Stoic ethical teachings that Cicero urges the Roman elite to adopt. Stoicism as Cicero understood it held that the gods existed and loved human beings. Both during and after a person’s life, the gods rewarded or punished human beings according to their conduct in life.
8 gru 2021 · Summary. For approximately the last thirty years, Cicero’s reputation as a philosopher has been rising after close to a century of very low esteem. The alleged reasons for this disrepute are numerous and varied. Cicero was Roman, and Romans were thought to be neither scientific nor philosophical.
1 sty 2021 · This engagingly written book offers an innovative account of Cicero’s treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics.
15 kwi 2022 · In Cicero: Political Philosophy, between an introductory chapter on some historical contexts and an incisive epilogue, Schofield deftly connects five topics hot in contemporary ethical and political theory to the Roman statesman’s philosophical writings (and to his correspondence at some fateful points in his life as well): liberty, equality ...
