Cicero On The Emotions

Author : Marcus Tullius
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226305198
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero on the Emotions written by Marcus Tullius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, their lists of oddly named character flaws, and by the philosophical debate that develops over the utility of anger in politics and war. Margaret Graver's elegant and idiomatic translation makes Cicero's work accessible not just to classicists but to anyone interested in ancient philosophy and psychotherapy or in the philosophy of emotion. The accompanying commentary explains the philosophical concepts discussed in the text and supplies many helpful parallels from Greek sources.

Author : Margaret R. Graver
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459618602
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stoicism and Emotion written by Margaret R. Graver and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our surroundings. Stoicism and Emotion shows that they did not simply advocate an across-the-board suppression of feeling, as stoicism implies in today's English, but instead conducted a searching examination of these powerful psychological responses, seeking to understand what attitude toward them expresses the deepest respect for human potential.

Author : Ernest Alfred Lussky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Appeal to the Emotions in the Judicial Speeches of Cicero as Compared with the Theories Set Forth on the Subject in the De Oratore ... written by Ernest Alfred Lussky and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.EC/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Tusculan Disputations written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero's Tusculan Disputations written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1877, the present book 'Cicero's Tusculan Disputations' is a series of books written by Cicero. He wrote this around 45 BC in an attempt to popularise Stoic philosophy in Ancient Rome.

Author : Tad Brennan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191531324
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stoic Life written by Tad Brennan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life - and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original Stoic philosophers, and shows how valuable these ideas remain today, both intellectually and in practice. He writes in a lively informal style which will bring Stoicism to life for readers who are new to ancient philosophy. The Stoic Life will also be of great interest to philosophers and classicists seeking a full understanding of the intellectual legacy of the Stoics. Brennan starts from scrupulous attention to the evidence (references are provided to all of the standard collections of Stoic texts). He provides translations of the original texts, with extensive annotations that will allow readers to pursue further reading. No knowledge of Greek is required. An introductory section provides context by introducing the reader to the most important figures in the Stoic school, the philosophical climate in which they worked, and a brief summary of the leading tenets of the Stoic system. After this context is established, the book is divided into three sections. The first provides a thorough exploration of the Stoic school's theories of psychology, focusing on their analyses of fear, desire, and other emotions. The second develops the more centrally ethical topics of value, obligation, and right action. The third part explores the Stoic school's views on fate, determinism, and moral responsibility. For anyone interested in the origins of Western ethical thought, who wishes to understand the vast influence that Stoic philosophy has had on philosophy and religion up to our time, this book will be essential reading.

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108624111
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy written by Brad Inwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a material entity, as it was by Epicureans and Stoics; but even Aristotelians and Platonists shared the conviction that body and soul interact in ways that affect the well-being of the living human being. These philosophers were interested in the nature of the soul, its structure, and its powers. They were also interested in the place of the soul within a general account of the world. This leads to important questions about the proper methods by which we should investigate the nature of the soul and the appropriate relationships among natural philosophy, medicine, and psychology. This volume, part of the Symposium Hellenisticum series, features ten scholars addressing different aspects of this topic.

Author : Jed W. Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108265642
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy written by Jed W. Atkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero is one of the most important and influential thinkers within the history of Western philosophy. For the last thirty years, his reputation as a philosopher has once again been on the rise after close to a century of very low esteem. This Companion introduces readers to 'Cicero the philosopher' and to his philosophical writings. It provides a handy port-of-call for those interested in Cicero's original contributions to a wide variety of topics such as epistemology, the emotions, determinism and responsibility, cosmopolitanism, republicanism, philosophical translation, dialogue, aging, friendship, and more. The international, interdisciplinary team of scholars represented in this volume highlights the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Cicero's writings, and suggests pathways for future scholarship on Cicero's philosophy as we move through the twenty-first century.

Author : Nathan Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009170333
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy written by Nathan Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Cicero's thought on a range of issues including political leadership, persuasive rhetoric, and the right use of power.

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409942030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Moral Duties (de Officiis) (Dodo Press) written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. He is widely considered one of Romeâ€(TM)s greatest orators and prose stylists. He is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, he probably thought his political career his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. Although a great master of Latin rhetoric and composition, Cicero was not Roman in the traditional sense, and was quite self-conscious of this for his entire life. He was declared a “righteous pagan†by the early Catholic Church, and therefore many of his works were deemed worthy of preservation. Saint Augustine and others quoted liberally from his works On the Republic and On the Laws, and it is due to this that we are able to recreate much of the work from the surviving fragments.