Cicero's 'de Officiis'

A Critical Guide
Herausgeber: Woolf, Raphael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Cicero's De Officiis is perhaps his most influential philosophical work. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, explores its richness and variety and will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518014
• ISBN-10: 1316518019
• Artikelnr.: 66876395

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Raphael Woolf
Part I. The Framework of De Officiis: 1. The family in De Officiis J. P. F. Wynne
2. Conflict of duties in Cicero's De Officiis Georgia Tsouni
Part II. The Role of Virtue: 3. Oikei¿sis and the origin of virtue Brad Inwood
4. Cicero's project in book 2 of De Officiis Malcolm Schofield
5. Cicero's De Officiis on practical deliberation Christopher Gill
Part III. Exemplary Ethics: 6. De Officiis and exemplary ethics Rebecca Langlands
7. Emulation and moral development in De Officiis Georgina White
Part IV. Self and Society: 8. Care of the (written) self: literary and ethical decorum in De Officiis Caroline Bishop
9. Cicero and the cynics Sean McConnell
Part V. Politics: 10. Patriotism and cosmopolitanism in Cicero's De Officiis Jed W. Atkins
11. Cicero's extremist ethics Ingo Gildenhard
Bibliography, Index.