Cicero\'s \'de Officiis\': A Critical Guide

ISBN-13: 9781316518014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Raphael Woolf

Opis

Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is helpfully organised in thematic sections and aims to illuminate both the main individual topics of De Officiis and their interconnections, with essays by an international team of contributors that will allow readers to appreciate the work's distinctive blend of philosophical theory and social and political reality. It will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.

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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. Oikeiōsis 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.