Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
- Editors:
- Nathan Gilbert, University of Durham
- Margaret Graver, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
- Sean McConnell, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Date Published: January 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009170338
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Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works, from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the morality of political arguments, to the means of justifying the use of force in international relations. It features close readings of works from all periods of Cicero's philosophical career, from the threshold of Rome's civil war to the year following the assassination of Julius Caesar. For a richer body of evidence, the volume also makes use of material from Cicero's personal letters and political speeches. Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy will be essential reading not only in Roman philosophy but also for the political and rhetorical culture of the Roman Republic.
Read more- Adopts a range of cross-generic and interdisciplinary approaches to Cicero's philosophy
- Focuses on Cicero's persuasive techniques and strategies, which make him distinctive within the Greek and Roman intellectual tradition
- Addresses the relationship between persuasive rhetoric, practical politics, and philosophy in Cicero's corpus
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- Date Published: January 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009170338
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver and Sean McConnell
Part I. Techniques and Tactics of Ciceronian Philosophy:
1. Cicero on rhetoric and dialectic Raphael Woolf
2. Cicero's Platonic dialogues James E. G. Zetzel
3. Mos dialogorum: scepticism and fiction in Cicero's Academica Georgina White
4. Nos in diem vivimus: Cicero's approach in the Tusculan Disputations Geert Roskam
5. Cicero the philosopher at work: the genesis and execution of de officiis 3 Nathan Gilbert
Part II. Political Philosophy and Ethics:
6. Luris consensu revisited Malcolm Schofield
7. The psychology of honor in Cicero's De re publica Margaret Graver
8. Cicero on the justice of war Jed W. Atkins
9. Towards a definition of sapientia: philosophy in Cicero's Pro Marcello Katherina Volk
10. Old men in Cicero's political philosophy Sean McConnell
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