Cicero's ‘De Officiis' : A Critical Guide

by: Woolf, R.

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Cicero's ?De Officiis'
A Critical Guide

Series: Cambridge Critical Guides

Author: Raphael Woolf , King's College London

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.

Provides the first scholarly collection of essays devoted to Cicero's De Officiis
Offers a multi-perspectival approach to one of Cicero's most influential philosophical works
Emphasises the growing importance of Roman philosophy as a distinct sub-discipline

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.

Contributors
Raphael Woolf, J. P. F. Wynne, Georgia Tsouni, Brad Inwood, Malcolm Schofield, Christopher Gill, Rebecca Langlands, Georgina White, Caroline Bishop, Sean McConnell, Jed W Atkins, Ingo Gildenhard

Editor
Raphael Woolf , King's College London
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).

Cicero's ‘De Officiis' : A Critical Guide

by: Woolf, R.

• ISBN-13: 9781009048774
• ISBN-03: 1009048775
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023

Price: 35,00 EURO

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Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archaologie 10/2004

by: Pillinger, R. Renhart, E.

• ISBN-13: 9783700133230
• ISBN-03: 3700133235
• Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 2004