Cicero: On Moral Ends
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-16
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521669016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero's important work on ethics.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-16
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521669016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero's important work on ethics.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521660617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. Cicero was an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf's translation does justice to Cicero's argumentative vigor as well as to the philosophical ideas involved, while Julia Annas' introduction and notes provide a clear and accessible explanation of the philosophical context of the work.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CICEREO was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us. Collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other Italian humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this correspondence is unparalleled: nowhere else do we get such an intimate look at the life of a prominent Roman and his social world, or such a vivid sense of a momentous period in Roman history, years marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Republic. The 435 letters collected here represent Ciceros correspondence with friends and acquaintances over a period of twenty years, from 62 BC, when Ciceros political career was at its peak, to 43, the year he was put to death by the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony. They range widely in substance and style, from official dispatches and semi-public letters of political importance to casual notes that chat with close friends about travels and projects, domestic pleasures and books, and questions currently debated. This new Loeb Classical Library edition of the Letters to Friends, in three volumes brings together D.R. Shackleton Baileys standard Latin text, now updated, and a revised version of his much admired translation first published by Penguin Books. This authoritative edition complements the new Loeb edition of Ciceros Letters to Atticus, also translated by Shackleton Bailey.
Author: Marcus Tullius
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-03-05
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0226305198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, their lists of oddly named character flaws, and by the philosophical debate that develops over the utility of anger in politics and war. Margaret Graver's elegant and idiomatic translation makes Cicero's work accessible not just to classicists but to anyone interested in ancient philosophy and psychotherapy or in the philosophy of emotion. The accompanying commentary explains the philosophical concepts discussed in the text and supplies many helpful parallels from Greek sources.
Author: Cicero
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0718194012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will, and the justification of any creative endeavour. This lively, lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek, editor of Classical Antiquity and the Classics and Contemporary Thought book series, makes Cicero's influential ideas accessible to every reader.
Author: Julia Annas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1107074835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book opens up Cicero's work philosophically, taking us deeper into ancient ethical debates and into Cicero's own sceptical stance.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
Published: 2008-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781409942030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. He is widely considered one of Romeâ€(TM)s greatest orators and prose stylists. He is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, he probably thought his political career his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. Although a great master of Latin rhetoric and composition, Cicero was not Roman in the traditional sense, and was quite self-conscious of this for his entire life. He was declared a “righteous pagan†by the early Catholic Church, and therefore many of his works were deemed worthy of preservation. Saint Augustine and others quoted liberally from his works On the Republic and On the Laws, and it is due to this that we are able to recreate much of the work from the surviving fragments.
Author: Quintus Curtius
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11-02
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780578409672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new translation of Cicero's philosophical classic "On Moral Ends" is unlike any other previous translation. Illustrated with original photographs and entirely annotated, it brings this great work to a new generation of readers.