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Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works, from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the morality of political arguments, to the means of justifying the use of force in international relations. It features close readings of works from all periods of Cicero's philosophical career, from the threshold of Rome's civil war to the year following the assassination of Julius Caesar. For a richer body of evidence, the volume also makes use of material from Cicero's personal letters and political speeches. Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy will be essential reading not only in Roman philosophy but also for the political and rhetorical culture of the Roman Republic.

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Author:   Nathan Gilbert (University of Durham) ,  Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) ,  Sean McConnell (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781009170338

ISBN 10:   1009170333
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver and Sean McConnell; Part I. Techniques and Tactics of Ciceronian Philosophy: 1. Cicero on rhetoric and dialectic Raphael Woolf; 2. Cicero's Platonic dialogues James E. G. Zetzel; 3. Mos dialogorum: scepticism and fiction in Cicero's Academica Georgina White; 4. Nos in diem vivimus: Cicero's approach in the Tusculan Disputations Geert Roskam; 5. Cicero the philosopher at work: the genesis and execution of de officiis 3 Nathan Gilbert; Part II. Political Philosophy and Ethics: 6. Luris consensu revisited Malcolm Schofield; 7. The psychology of honor in Cicero's De re publica Margaret Graver; 8. Cicero on the justice of war Jed W. Atkins; 9. Towards a definition of sapientia: philosophy in Cicero's Pro Marcello Katherina Volk; 10. Old men in Cicero's political philosophy Sean McConnell; Bibliography.

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NATHAN GILBERT is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at University of Durham. MARGARET GRAVER is Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College and the author of Seneca: The Literary Philosopher, forthcoming 2023 from Cambridge University Press. Her other publications include Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 (2002); Stoicism and Emotion (2007); and, with A. A. Long, a complete annotated translation of Seneca's Letters on Ethics. SEAN McCONNELL is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Otago. He is the author of Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters (Cambridge, 2014).

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