Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy

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Cicero as Philosopher

New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy

Edited by: Andree Hahmann and Michael Vazquez

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has continued to unfold over the centuries, repeatedly inspiring new and independent philosophical positions. Since J.G.F. Powell’s pivotal contribution in 1995, we have witnessed countless translations and scholarly treatments of Cicero’s philosophy that emphasize his creativity and influence. In this tradition, the present volume offers fresh and incisive contributions that advance the ongoing renaissance in Cicero scholarship.

Part One of the volume focuses on Cicero’s approaches to writing philosophy and on specific interpretive questions facing readers of his philosophical corpus. Part Two traces key moments in Cicero’s philosophical afterlife, from Augustine through the Scholastic period to the Renaissance, culminating in the rich and varied tradition of Ciceronian reception in the European Enlightenment. Throughout the volume, special attention is given to Cicero’s practical philosophy.

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Andree Hahmann, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Michael Vazquez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Andree Hahmann and Michael Vazquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part One: Cicero’s Philosophy Revisited
1 The Practical Basis and Coherence of Cicero’s Socratic Philosophy Walter Nicgorski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
2 Rereading De Republica: Popular Philosophy and Historicism Matthew Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
3 Designing Philosophical Authority in Cicero’s Dialogues Gernot Michael Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
4 Contra physicos…Carneadeo more multa disputata: Cicero’s Timaeus and the Discussions about Physics in De Natura Deorum, De Divinatione, and De Fato Clara Auvray-Assayas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
5 Cicero’s De Oratore and the Platonic Art of Writing Jed W. Atkins and Leo Trotz-Liboff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
6 Between Chrysippus and Panaetius: Cicero’s Attitude to Second-Order Stoic Ethical Thought in De Finibus and Beyond Jula Wildberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
7 Does Philosophy Provide a Secure Path to Perfect Happiness? Cicero’s Discussion of the Sufficiency Thesis in Tusculan Disputations 5 Jörn Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
8 Cicero’s De Officiis: A Cradle for Modern Ethics? Christelle Veillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
9 Cicero’s Philosophy of Just War Thornton Lockwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
10 Friends and Obligations: Cicero’s De Amicitia and a Problem in Roman Political Culture Sean McConnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Part Two: Cicero’s Afterlife
11 Augustine’s Reception of the Ciceronian Civitas Veronica Roberts Ogle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
12 Auctoritas of the Thirteenth Century: Thomas Aquinas and Natural Teleology in the Ciceronian Tradition Laura Corso de Estrada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
13 “From the innermost and deepest grounds of philosophy”: On the Place of Cicero in Francisco Suárez’s De Legibus ac Deo Legislatore Gideon Stiening Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
14 The Public Latinity of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Cato, Cicero, and the Mighty Aristotle Brian Copenhaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
15 Radical Readings of Ciceronian Dialogue in Early Eighteenth-Century England Katherine A. East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
16 Sunt autem privata nulla natura: Cicero and the Early Modern History of Property Phillip Mitsis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
17 Testing the Limits of Reason: The Place of Cicero in Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law Tim Stuart-Buttle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
18 Cicero in the German Enlightenment Andree Hahmann and Michael Vazquez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409

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eBook published on:

December 2, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111591520

Hardcover published on:

December 2, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111591179

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Front matter:

6

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412

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1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111591520

eBook ISBN: 9783111591520

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111591179

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Cicero; Marcus Tullius; philosophy; Roman Empire; classical antiquity

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Scholars of ancient philosophy, Cicero, and early modern and modern philosophy, classicists

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