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Cicero: Tusculan Disputations II & V: With a Summary of Books III & IV

Cicero: Tusculan Disputations II & V: With a Summary of Books III & IV

Cicero
Douglas, Alan E.
Douglas, Alan E.

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Literary CriticismAncient RomeFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0856684333
ISBN13: 9780856684333
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jan 1 1990
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The Fifth Tusculan Disputation is the finest of the five books, its nearest rival being the First (also edited in this series). The middle three books, represented in this edition by the Second, are, as the author clearly intended, less elevated, though still showing Cicero's flair for elegant and lively exposition, and providing much valuable information about the teaching of the main Hellenistic philosophical schools, especially the Stoics. They argue that the perfect human life, or complete human well-being, that of the 'wise man', is unaffected by physical and mental distress or extremes of emotion. Against this background the Fifth puts the positive, mainly Stoic, case that virtue, moral goodness, is alone and of itself sufficient. Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary.

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