Why Cicero Matters
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2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37667-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37667-0 (ISBN)
Why Cicero Matters shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a new political world. His impact on humanitarianism, the Enlightenment and the Founding Fathers of America is immense. Yet we give Julius Caesar all our attention. Why? What does this say about modern politics and political culture?
This book gives us Cicero as an antidote to the myth of the strong man of history. Reading Cicero’s On Duties alongside two more introspective philosophical texts, On Friendship and On Old Age, we see how Cicero turned politics into a higher, intellectual form of art, believing in education, in culture and above all in the power of philosophy to instil morality. Cicero has reassuring words on the indispensable work philosophers make, and why the common good needs philosophy.
In an age when anti-intellectualism runs rampant, Why Cicero Matters introduces us to an ancient thinker who argues culture is, or ought to be, the foundation of any modern democracy, and books its building blocks.
This book gives us Cicero as an antidote to the myth of the strong man of history. Reading Cicero’s On Duties alongside two more introspective philosophical texts, On Friendship and On Old Age, we see how Cicero turned politics into a higher, intellectual form of art, believing in education, in culture and above all in the power of philosophy to instil morality. Cicero has reassuring words on the indispensable work philosophers make, and why the common good needs philosophy.
In an age when anti-intellectualism runs rampant, Why Cicero Matters introduces us to an ancient thinker who argues culture is, or ought to be, the foundation of any modern democracy, and books its building blocks.
Vittorio Bufacchi is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland.
Preface
Introduction: It’s All Shakespeare’s Fault
1. Cicero, Homo Philosophicus
2. Politics as Ethics
3. The People’s Republic
4. The Value of Friendship
5. Getting Old, With Decorum
6. Rome Needs Philosophy
Epilogue: Why Read Cicero Today
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Why Philosophy Matters |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-37667-1 / 1350376671 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-37667-0 / 9781350376670 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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