How to Think about God (eBook)

An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
168 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19744-9 (ISBN)

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A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods-from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless local divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief system that is finding new adherents even today: Stoicism. How did the Stoics think about religion? In How to Think about God, Philip Freeman presents vivid new translations of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio. In these brief works, Cicero offers a Stoic view of belief, divinity, and human immortality, giving eloquent expression to the religious ideas of one of the most popular schools of Roman and Greek philosophy.On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio are Cicero's best-known and most important writings on religion, and they have profoundly shaped Christian and non-Christian thought for more than two thousand years, influencing such luminaries as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and Thomas Jefferson. These works reveal many of the religious aspects of Stoicism, including an understanding of the universe as a materialistic yet continuous and living whole in which both the gods and a supreme God are essential elements.Featuring an introduction, suggestions for further reading, and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Think about God is a compelling guide to the Stoic view of the divine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Übersetzer: Philip Freeman
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: 133 BC • 168 BC • 217 BC • 295 BC • 45 BC • 51 BC • 63 BC • Absolute (philosophy) • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • ALL THINGS • Amphiaraus • Annals (Tacitus) • Apotheosis • Asia Minor • Atheism • Augur • augury • Battle of Sentinum • Be star • By Nature • calchas • Caucasus mountains • celestial sphere • Certainty • Chrysippus • Cicero • Cleanthes • Cybele • de divinatione • De fato • deity • De natura deorum • de re publica • Determination • Dictatorship • Eloquence • Ennius • epicurus • Firmament • First Punic War • Gaius Flaminius • Gauls • God • Greek Philosophy • Human Spirit • impiety • Jason and the Argonauts (miniseries) • Latin Literature • Lightness (philosophy) • Lucretius • Manius Manilius • Masinissa • meteorology • Moisture • Mopsus • narrative • Numidia • obstacle • Orbit of Venus • Philosopher • Platonic Academy • pollution • Posidonius • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Pythagoras • Reincarnation • Religion • rhetoric • Roman Army • Roman consul • Roman Empire • Ruler • Scipio Aemilianus • second punic war • skepticism • southern Italy • Stoicism • strait • Sulla • Supporter • temperate climate • The Various • Third Macedonian War • Third Punic War • Tiberius Gracchus • Timaeus (historian) • Tiresias • treatise • Winter Solstice • workmanship • Writing • zeno of citium
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19744-X / 069119744X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19744-9 / 9780691197449