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Cicero: On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero: On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) Marcus Tullius Cicero ebook
ISBN: 0521660610, 9780511040603
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Format: pdf
Page: 194

Cicero.On.Moral.Ends.Cambridge.Texts.in.the.History.of. Is there a problem with approaching a text like Hamlet or All's Well that Ends Well in a similar way? Probably the most notable example of his influence is St. Cicero: On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). That is I suppose it was in '73 when Clifford Geertz's classic text, The Interpretation of Cultures, was published, but that collected essays that he had been writing over the last ten years. Dialogues of Plato; LGBT history in. Augustine's claim that it was Cicero's Hortensius (an exhortation to philosophy, the text of which is unfortunately lost) that turned him away from his sinful life and towards philosophy and which give us the English words morals, property, individual, science, image, and appetite), and in part by drawing on and idealizing Roman history to provide examples of appropriate conduct and to illustrate the arguments of philosophy. Product Description This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. As to why, if I was interested in the history of philosophy, it turned out to be the history of political philosophy, I suspect the answer to that is simply that it was an artifact of the Cambridge syllabus. On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) - Cicero CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. Most of his philosophical works were written at intervals when he was unable to participate in public life, and with the intent of influencing the political leaders of the time. For Cicero, politics took precedence over philosophy. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy).