Cicero's Law
Cicero's Law

Author: Paul J. du Plessis

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1474408842

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This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.

Natural Law Republicanism
Natural Law Republicanism

Author: Michael C. Hawley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0197582354

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By any metric, Cicero's works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought. Natural Law Republicanism suggests that perhaps his most lasting and significant contribution to philosophy lies in helping to inspire the development of liberalism. Individual rights, the protection of private property, and political legitimacy based on the consent of the governed are often taken to be among early modern liberalism's unique innovations and part of its rebellion against classical thought. However, Michael C. Hawley demonstrates how Cicero's thought played a central role in shaping and inspiring the liberal republican project. Cicero argued that liberty for individuals could arise only in a res publica in which the claims of the people to be sovereign were somehow united with a commitment to universal moral law, which limits what the people can rightfully do. Figures such as Hugo Grotius, John Locke, and John Adams sought to work through the tensions in Cicero's vision, laying the groundwork for a theory of politics in which the freedom of the individual and the people's collective right to rule were mediated by natural law. Tracing the development of this intellectual tradition from Cicero's original articulation through the American Founding, Natural Law Republicanism explores how our modern political ideas remain dependent on the legacy of one of Rome's great philosopher-statesmen.

The Republic and The Laws
The Republic and The Laws

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-08-14

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 019954011X

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Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. This is the first complete English translation of both works for over sixty years and features a lucid introduction, a table of dates, notes on the Roman constitution, and an index of names.

Cicero's Political Personae
Cicero's Political Personae

Author: Joanna Kenty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1108879330

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Cicero's speeches provide a fascinating window into the political battles and crises of his time. In this book, Joanna Kenty examines Cicero's persuasive strategies and the subtleties of his Latin prose, and shows how he used eight political personae – the attacker, the grateful friend, the martyr, the senator, the partisan ideologue, and others – to maximize his political leverage in the latter half of his career. These personae were what made his arguments convincing, and drew audiences into Cicero's perspective. Non-specialist and expert readers alike will gain new insight into Cicero's corpus and career as a whole, as well as a better appreciation of the context, details, and nuances of individual passages.

Cicero and Modern Law
Cicero and Modern Law

Author: Richard O. Brooks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 1351571907

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Cicero and Modern Law contains the best modern writings on Cicero's major law related works, such as the Republic, On Law, On Oratory, along with a comprehensive bibliography of writings on Cicero's legal works. These works are organized to reveal the influence of Cicero's writings upon the history of legal thought, including St. Thomas, the Renaissance, Montesquieu and the U.S. Founding Fathers. Finally, the articles include discussions of Cicero's influence upon central themes in modern lega thought, including legal skepticism, republicanism, mixed government, private property, natural law, conservatism and rhetoric. The editor offers an extensive introduction, placing these articles in the context of an overall view of Cicero's contribution to modern legal thinking.

A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas
A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas

Author: Charles P. Nemeth

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1350009474

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In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas, Charles P. Nemeth investigates how, despite their differences, these two figures may be the most compatible brothers in ideas ever conceived in the theory of natural law. Looking to find common threads that run between the philosophies of these two great thinkers of the Classical and Medieval periods, this book aims to determine whether or not there exists a common ground whereby ethical debates and dilemmas can be evaluated. Does comparison between Cicero and Aquinas offer a new pathway for moral measure, based on defined and developed principles? Do they deliver certain moral and ethical principles for human life to which each agree? Instead of a polemical diatribe, comparison between Cicero and Aquinas may edify a method of compromise and afford a more or less restrictive series of judgements about ethical quandaries.

Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason
Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason

Author: Jed W. Atkins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1107513235

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A prolific philosopher who also held Rome's highest political office, Cicero was uniquely qualified to write on political philosophy. In this book Professor Atkins provides a fresh interpretation of Cicero's central political dialogues - the Republic and Laws. Devoting careful attention to form as well as philosophy, Atkins argues that these dialogues together probe the limits of reason in political affairs and explore the resources available to the statesman given these limitations. He shows how Cicero appropriated and transformed Plato's thought to forge original and important works of political philosophy. The book demonstrates that Cicero's Republic and Laws are critical for understanding the history of the concepts of rights, the mixed constitution and natural law. It concludes by comparing Cicero's thought to the modern conservative tradition and argues that Cicero provides a perspective on utopia frequently absent from current philosophical treatments.

Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws
Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-08

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107140064

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The second edition of James E. G. Zetzel's masterly translation of Cicero's major works of political philosophy, On the Commonwealth and On the Laws.

Cicero and the Jurists
Cicero and the Jurists

Author: Jill Harries

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Published: 2006-05-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Places the Roman Republican jurists, hitherto largely neglected by historians, in their intellectual, social and political context

Justice and Generosity
Justice and Generosity

Author: Andre Laks

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-01-26

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0521452937

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Hegel's often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this collection of essays, originally presented at the sixth meeting of the Symposium Hellenisticum. An international team of leading scholars reveals a vigorous intellectual scene of great diversity.