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• Title: Cicero and Stoicism: Brief Introductions to De Finibus, Stoic Paradoxes, and Tusculan Disputations
• Author : Massimo Pigliucci
• Release Date : January 05, 2021
• Genre: Philosophy,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1036 KB

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Marcus Tullus Cicero is one of the most renowned and influential figures of antiquity. He was a Roman senator, lawyer, consul, and philosopher. He lived (106-43 BCE) during one of the most turbulent periods of Roman history. A contemporary of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, Octavian, and Mark Anthony, he desperately tried to avoid the destruction of the Roman Republic (he failed). Near the end of his life, Cicero moved to his villa in Tusculum, in the Alban Hills near Rome, to grieve over the death of his daughter Tullia and his (temporary, as it turned out) retirement from public life. During his so-called retirement, which only lasted a couple of years, he wrote some of the most influential philosophical treatises to appear in the Latin tongue, several of which extensively discuss Stoic philosophy. Cicero himself was not a Stoic, identifying instead as an Academic Skeptic (i.e., Plato’s school during his Skeptical period, under Carneades and others). But he was sympathetic to Stoicism, having himself studied with one of the prominent Stoics of the period, Panaetius, and being friends with another major figure of the Middle Stoa, Posidonius. This collection of essays presents and discusses Cicero’s treatment of Stoicism as it appears in De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil), Paradoxa Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes), and Tusculanae Quaestiones (Tusculan Disputations). The topics are wide ranging: from the very structure of the Stoic system to the concept of oikeiosis, the Stoic theory of moral development. From the nature of virtue to why pain is not an evil. From how we should approach death to the nature of happiness. Cicero also offers a spirited criticism of Stoic philosophy, which can still today provide stimulating food for thought to skeptics and practitioners alike. The three books discussed here remain among the most important sources on ancient Stoicism, as well as an inspiration for modern Stoics.

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