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1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One: Cicero’s Philosophy Revisited
5. 1 The Practical Basis and Coherence of Cicero’s Socratic Philosophy 15
6. 2 Rereading De Republica: Popular Philosophy and Historicism 33
7. 3 Designing Philosophical Authority in Cicero’s Dialogues 63
8. 4 Contra physicos…Carneadeo more multa disputata: Cicero’s Timaeus and the Discussions about Physics in De Natura Deorum, De Divinatione, and De Fato 81
9. 5 Cicero’s De Oratore and the Platonic Art of Writing 97
10. 6 Between Chrysippus and Panaetius: Cicero’s Attitude to Second-Order Stoic Ethical Thought in De Finibus and Beyond 127
11. 7 Does Philosophy Provide a Secure Path to Perfect Happiness? Cicero’s Discussion of the Sufficiency Thesis in Tusculan Disputations 5 151
12. 8 Cicero’s De Officiis: A Cradle for Modern Ethics? 173
13. 9 Cicero’s Philosophy of Just War 197
14. 10 Friends and Obligations: Cicero’s De Amicitia and a Problem in Roman Political Culture 223
15. Part Two: Cicero’s Afterlife
16. 11 Augustine’s Reception of the Ciceronian Civitas 247
17. 12 Auctoritas of the Thirteenth Century: Thomas Aquinas and Natural Teleology in the Ciceronian Tradition 265
18. 13 “From the innermost and deepest grounds of philosophy”: On the Place of Cicero in Francisco Suárez’s De Legibus ac Deo Legislatore 285
19. 14 The Public Latinity of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Cato, Cicero, and the Mighty Aristotle 307
20. 15 Radical Readings of Ciceronian Dialogue in Early Eighteenth-Century England 329
21. 16 Sunt autem privata nulla natura: Cicero and the Early Modern History of Property 347
22. 17 Testing the Limits of Reason: The Place of Cicero in Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law 367
23. 18 Cicero in the German Enlightenment 391
24. Index 409