Cicero's 'De Officiis': A Critical Guide
Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is helpfully organised in thematic sections and aims to illuminate both the main individual topics of De Officiis and their interconnections, with essays by an international team of contributors that will allow readers to appreciate the work's distinctive blend of philosophical theory and social and political reality. It will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.
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Cicero's 'De Officiis': A Critical Guide
Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is helpfully organised in thematic sections and aims to illuminate both the main individual topics of De Officiis and their interconnections, with essays by an international team of contributors that will allow readers to appreciate the work's distinctive blend of philosophical theory and social and political reality. It will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.
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Cicero's 'De Officiis': A Critical Guide

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

Cicero's 'De Officiis': A Critical Guide

Overview

Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is helpfully organised in thematic sections and aims to illuminate both the main individual topics of De Officiis and their interconnections, with essays by an international team of contributors that will allow readers to appreciate the work's distinctive blend of philosophical theory and social and political reality. It will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781316518014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/29/2023
Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
Pages: 270
Product dimensions: 6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Raphael Woolf is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London. He is author of Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic (2015) and translator of Cicero: On Moral Ends (ed. Julia Annas, Cambridge University Press 2001).

Table 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. Oikeiōsis 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.
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