Cicero's Knowledge of the Peripatos

ISBN-13: 9781138508156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Opis

As a young man he studied philosophy in Greece; throughout his life he maintained a keen interest in intellectual history; and during periods of political inactivity - especially in his last years as the Republic collapsed - he wrote treatises that today are invaluable sources for our knowledge of Hellenistic philosophy, including the School of Ari

Spis treści

1. Beobachtungen zu Ciceros philosophischem Standpunkt, 2. Aristotle and Theophrastus Conjoined in the Writings of Cicero, 3. Cicero’s Knowledge of the Rhetorical Treatises of Aristotle, and Theophrastus, 4. Cicero’s Topics and Its Peripatetic Sources, 5. Constitution and Citizenship: Peripatetic Influence on Cicero’s Political Conceptions in the De república, 6. Das Problem Theorie-Praxis in der Peripatos-Rezeption von Ciceros Staatsschrift, 7. “Naturrecht” bei Aristoteles und bei Cicero (De legibus): Ein Vergleich, 8. Gibt es Spuren von Theophrasts Phys. op. bei Cicero? 9. Theophrast in Cicero’s De finibus Olof Gigon 10. Die Peripatetiker in Cicero’s Tuskulanen, 11. Aristotelian Material in Cicero’s De natura deorum, 12. Cicero and the Aristotelian Theory of Divination by Dreams, 13. Cicero und die ‘Schule des Aristoteles’

O autorze

William W. Fortenbaugh , Project Theophrastus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA