Cicero''s De Officiis'' - A Critical Guide

Cicero's De Officiis is perhaps his most influential philosophical work. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, explores its richness and variety and will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.

List of contents

Introduction Raphael Woolf; Part I. The Framework of De Officiis: 1. The family in De Officiis J. P. F. Wynne; 2. Conflict of duties in Cicero's De Officiis Georgia Tsouni; Part II. The Role of Virtue: 3. Oikei¿sis and the origin of virtue Brad Inwood; 4. Cicero's project in book 2 of De Officiis Malcolm Schofield; 5. Cicero's De Officiis on practical deliberation Christopher Gill; Part III. Exemplary Ethics: 6. De Officiis and exemplary ethics Rebecca Langlands; 7. Emulation and moral development in De Officiis Georgina White; Part IV. Self and Society: 8. Care of the (written) self: literary and ethical decorum in De Officiis Caroline Bishop; 9. Cicero and the cynics Sean McConnell; Part V. Politics: 10. Patriotism and cosmopolitanism in Cicero's De Officiis Jed W. Atkins; 11. Cicero's extremist ethics Ingo Gildenhard; Bibliography, Index.

Summary

Cicero's De Officiis is perhaps his most influential philosophical work. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, explores its richness and variety and will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.

Foreword

This Guide presents a multi-perspectival, scholarly collection of essays, the first devoted to one of Cicero's most influential philosophical works.

Product details

• Authors: Raphael (King''''s College London) Woolf
• Assisted by: Raphael Woolf (Editor), Woolf Raphael (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009048774
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0904877-4
• No. of pages: 269
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500