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This Companion offers a guide to 'Cicero the philosopher.' It provides an access-point for non-specialist readers interested in Cicero and the many philosophical topics he explored, and it invites those already familiar with Cicero to view his philosophical writings afresh through the lens of recent interdisciplinary scholarship.
List of contents
Introduction Thomas Bénatouïl; 1. Cicero's philosophical writing in its intellectual context Claudia Moatti; 2. The Ciceronian dialogue Charles Brittain and Peter Osorio; 3. Philosophy in Cicero's letters Sophie Aubert-Baillot; 4. Philosophy in Cicero's speeches Catherine Steel; 5. Cicero and the creation of a Latin philosophical vocabulary Carlos Lévy; 6. Cicero and Plato Malcolm Schofield; 7. Cicero's academic skepticism Tobias Reinhardt; 8. Cosmology, theology, and religion Clara Auvray-Assayas; 9. Determinism, fate, and responsibility Elisabeth Begemann; 10. Cicero on the emotions and the soul Sean McConnell; 11. Ethical theory and the good life Raphael Woolf; 12. Nature and social ethics Gretchen Reydams-Schils; 13. Philosophy, rhetoric, and politics Gary Remer; 14. Cicero's republicanism Walter Nicgorski; 15. Empire, just wars, and cosmopolitanism Jed W. Atkins; 16. Cicero and Augustine Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic; 17. Cicero and eighteenth-century political thought Daniel J. Kapust; 18. Cicero and twenty-first century political philosophy Martha C. Nussbaum.
About the author
Jed W. Atkins is the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Arete Initiative at Duke University. He is author of Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason (Cambridge, 2013) and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge, 2018).Thomas Bénatouïl is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Université de Lille. He is the author and editor of several books and articles in both French and English on ancient philosophy, and in particular Stoicism and its contemporary reception, and is the co-editor of the journal Philosophie antique.
Summary
This Companion offers a guide to 'Cicero the philosopher.' It provides an access-point for non-specialist readers interested in Cicero and the many philosophical topics he explored, and it invites those already familiar with Cicero to view his philosophical writings afresh through the lens of recent interdisciplinary scholarship.
