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Cicero: On Fate: & Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophyiv.5-7 and V

Cicero: On Fate: & Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophyiv.5-7 and V

Cicero
Boethius
Sharples, Robert W.

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

PhilosophyAncient RomeFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0856684767
ISBN13: 9780856684760
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Dec 12 1991
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.34
Language: English

Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero's treatise On Fate (De Fato), though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them. Study of the treatise has been hindered by the lack of a combined Latin text and English translation based on a clear understanding of the arguments; R. W. Sharples' text is intended to meet this need. The last book of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (Philosophiae Consolationis) is linked with Cicero's treatise by its theme, the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

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