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Cambridge Critical Guides: Cicero's 'de Officiis' : A Critical Guide by Raphael Woolf (2023, Hardcover)

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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.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101316518019

ISBN-139781316518014

eBay Product ID (ePID)18058631430

Product Key Features

Number of Pages300 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCicero's 'de Officiis' : a Critical Guide

Publication Year2023

SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorRaphael Woolf

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

SeriesCambridge Critical Guides

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2022-053370

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal171.2

Table Of ContentIntroduction 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. Oikeiosis 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.

SynopsisCicero'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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPA6296.D5C53 2023