Excerpt from M. T. Ciceronis De Officiis Ad Marcum Filium Libri Tres: Hanc Novam Et Primam Editionem Americanam
UM Cicero, Reipublicae libertate sublaifi, se ad philosophise studium retulisset, multòsque illustres ejus locos Latinis literis illustràsset suscepit ad filium, Athenis studiis literarum operam dantem, de ofiiciis scribere, non modà, ut hic quoque locus, qui latissimè patet, Latinis literis illustraretur, sed etiam, quod esset aetati Ciceronis filii&auctoritati parentis aptissimus. Quanquam autem haec queest tio communis est omnium philosophorum tamen his pene propria est, qui summum bonum honestete metin ntur, nempe Academicorum, Peripateticorum, Stoicorum, qui in consti_tuendo summo bono ver bis magis, quàm re, discrepabant. Secutus ergo Cicero est in hac quaestione potissimùm Stoicos, ex eorum fontibus, judicio arbitratfique suo, quan tum, quoque modo visum est, bunsit. Tradità ofi cii definitione divisione, quinque facit gene ra deliberationis in consilio capiendo primum, honestfimne factu sit an turpe, quod in deliberati ouem cadit: alterum, conducàtne an noceat: re liqua. Verb, ubi cum honesto pugnat id quod vide tur utile, cùm aliud alio honestius aut utilius Vi detur, utrum alteri sit pmponendum. In tres igi tur partes totem dismtatìonem distribuit, quorum prima est de honest...o, altera de utili; sed duplici 'ter utraque tertia de comparatione eorum. Primum formam quandam homesti exhibet à maturò. Human'à. Ductam, ejfisque quatuor partes facit, sa pientiam, justitiam, temperantiam, fortitudinem seu magnitudinem animi, ex quibus singulis certa guadern ofiicia nascuntur, cap. 4. Ac de his quatuor partibus fusè disputat, quomodo ab ns_ officia. Ducantur, ostendit, cap. 5. 42. Huic disputationi suhjicit de cotnparàtione honesti, de duobus bones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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