Cicero's Academici Libri and Lucullus
Cicero's Academici Libri and Lucullus

Author: Tobias Reinhardt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-12

Total Pages: 1119

ISBN-13: 0199277141

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Cicero's so-called Academica is a significant text for European cultural and intellectual history: as a substantial and self-contained body of evidence for one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity, as evidence for Stoic thought presented on its own terms and in interaction with objections, as a key text in a broader tradition which is devoted to the possibility of knowledge arising from perceptual experience, and as evidence for the fate of Plato's Academy in its final phase as a functioning school. This volume is the first detailed commentary on this set of texts since Reid's, published in 1885. It takes full account of the scholarly debate to date and seeks to elucidate the dialogues and fragmentary remains from a philosophical, historical, literary, and linguistic point of view.

A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri
A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri

Author: Terence J. Hunt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9789004109704

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This book performs for the "Academici Libri" what P.L. Schmidt achieved for the "De legibus" - it studies the entire tradition of the work, including its original publication, its influence in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, manuscripts and printed editions.

A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri
A Textual History of Cicero's Academici Libri

Author: David J. Hunt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9004351493

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This book addresses the problems surrounding Cicero's Academici Libri, including why the work exists in two different editions, why and when the work became fragmentary, and how it managed to survive. It achieves this by tracing the history and influence of the work from Antiquity to the present day. The main part of the book studies the manuscript tradition of the work. All extant manuscripts are fully described and their textual relationships are established. Historical information is assessed in order to show the part which manuscripts played in intellectual life, conclusions are reached on the archetype of the work and a full stemma of the tradition is built. The book contains a wealth of bibliographical information and will serve as a base for further study in the transmission of Cicero's works.

Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature
Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature

Author: Therese Fuhrer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 3111317145

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Mankind’s constant struggle with physical as well as mental weaknesses is omnipresent in ancient literature: misconduct, wrongdoing, failure and experiences of contingency are anthropological phenomena. Ancient ethics, epistemology, and natural philosophy have developed different theoretical approaches and guidelines on how to act and how to overcome all kinds of problems. Christian theology, on the other hand, has explained moral failure as a symptom of original sin, comparing decline and destruction to a burden from which mankind is relieved only at the end. The contributions explore how ancient philosophical texts, both pagan and Christian, explain, conceptualize and integrate the myriad manifestations of human fallibility into the different philosophical schools. The focus is on anthropological, ontological and theological concepts that analyse and reflect human fallibility, as well as on the textual and linguistic representation of the phenomenon in ancient literature. Several contributions in the volume explore literary texts that discuss or illustrate the philosophical dimension of fallibility, such as satire’s or tragedy’s (often exaggerated) depiction of human weakness.

On Academic Scepticism
On Academic Scepticism

Author: Cicero

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2006-02-28

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1603840079

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Charles Brittain's elegant new translation of Cicero's Academica makes available for the first time a readable and accurate translation into modern English of this complex yet crucial source of our knowledge of the epistemological debates between the skeptical Academics and the Stoics. Brittain's masterly Introduction, generous notes, English–Latin–Greek Glossary, and Index further commend this edition to the attention of students of Hellenistic philosophy at all levels.

Cicero as Philosopher
Cicero as Philosopher

Author: Andree Hahmann

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-12-02

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 3111591549

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Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has continued to unfold over the centuries, repeatedly inspiring new and independent philosophical positions. Since J.G.F. Powell’s pivotal contribution in 1995, we have witnessed countless translations and scholarly treatments of Cicero’s philosophy that emphasize his creativity and influence. In this tradition, the present volume offers fresh and incisive contributions that advance the ongoing renaissance in Cicero scholarship. Part One of the volume focuses on Cicero’s approaches to writing philosophy and on specific interpretive questions facing readers of his philosophical corpus. Part Two traces key moments in Cicero’s philosophical afterlife, from Augustine through the Scholastic period to the Renaissance, culminating in the rich and varied tradition of Ciceronian reception in the European Enlightenment. Throughout the volume, special attention is given to Cicero’s practical philosophy.

CICERO
CICERO

Author: Tobias Reinhardt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0199249571

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This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is informed by a comprehensive analysis of the entire tradition of Lucullus and Academicus Primus, and by a thorough rethinking of the text documented in the accompanying commentary volume. Lucullus and Academicus Primus are a key body of evidence for the development of Academic scepticism, one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity. The texts also shed light on the re-emergence of dogmatic Platonic philosophy in the first century BC.

Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church
Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church

Author: Alexander Y. Hwang

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0813217938

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Tradition and the rule of faith are particularly apt themes for this collection of studies. The essays are written in honor of Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., renowned American patristic scholar whose research and writings have focused on this particular theme.

Cicero: De Natura Deorum Book I
Cicero: De Natura Deorum Book I

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780521006309

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Edition, with Introduction and Commentary, of this key work of Epicurean theology and Roman philosophy.

Solitudo
Solitudo

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9004367438

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This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of “space” and “place”, which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.