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This research entitled "Philosophy and religion in book II of Cicero's De Diuinatione" constitutes a philological approach to the content of this treatise, which is composed - it should be remembered - of two diptychs. Thus Quintus Cicero develops first, in the first book, the point of view of the Stoics: divination exists, the agreement of all the peoples on this subject is a proof of it. As for Marcus Tullius Cicero, he is less affirmative than his brother. He enumerates all the arguments that the skeptics usually invoke against the divination. Chance can explain much. It is advisable, above all, to be wary of superstition, which creeps into our whole life. This does not mean that we should give up "political" divination. In any case, the art and the law of augury must be maintained, because they are based on an instinctive wisdom which it would be unreasonable to refuse.
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Anis Téraoui wurde am 20. Juli 1980 in Tabarka, einer Kleinstadt im Nordwesten Tunesiens, geboren. Am 23. März 2021 erhielt er seinen Doktortitel in französischer Sprache, Literatur und Zivilisation, Spezialgebiet Klassische Literatur (sehr ehrenvolle Erwähnung) unter der Leitung von Herrn Yves Lehmann, Professor Emérite an der Fakultät für Literatur in Straßburg.
