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Recovering the Ancient View of Founding
- A Commentary on Cicero's De Legibus
Engelsk Hardback
Recovering the Ancient View of Founding
- A Commentary on Cicero's De Legibus
Engelsk Hardback

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Recovering the Ancient View of Founding questions the consensus view of contemporary scholars who view Cicero as an eclectic and unoriginal political thinker. For them, De Legibus is perhaps the most striking example of this eclecticism. They say that Cicero claims a universal ground for laws that would restore the political privileges of his own aristocratic class. Yet Timothy Caspar shows that Cicero offers a unified, coherent, and original teaching about politics whose aim is justice for the entire republic, not just a part of it. Contrary to the prevailing view, Cicero does not embrace but rejects Stoicism—and any philosophy that culminates in a community of the wise—as a standard for politics. Instead, nature serves as the foundation of Cicero''s laws, and he elucidates a political standard grounded in nature and applicable to all citizens. Thus, the law codes of De Legibus are not only in harmony with but required by Cicero''s natural law principles. Caspar''s Recovering the Ancient View of Founding is a reinterpretation of a key work of ancient Roman political philosophy and belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in philosophy, politics, or ancient Rome.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
220
ISBN-13:
9780739134184
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0739134183
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Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2010
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
162mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2010
Forfatter(e):
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