Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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9780521348355: Cicero: On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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ISBN 10: 0521348358 ISBN 13: 9780521348355
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but this volume aims to render De Officiis, which had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. All the standard series features are present, including a wholly new translation, a concise introduction by a leading scholar, select bibliography, chronology, notes on vocabulary and brief biographies of the most prominent individuals mentioned in the text.

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'On Duties' was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521348358
ISBN 13 
9780521348355
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
243
Editor
Atkins E. M.
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