The Republic. Destiny.
Gallimard| N° d'inventaire | 25600 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 266 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Gallimard, 1994 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782070740130 |
"Tel" Collection.
Orator, lawyer, consul, public figure and man of action engaged in political struggles, Cicero died with the Roman Republic in 43 BC, but he continued to be nourished by the Greek sources of philosophy, without ever having defended contemplative leisure. He defends, unlike the Epicureans, the duty of political engagement, and seeks to establish a law of balance for cities that integrates and combines the positive aspects of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. The Aristotelianism of this intention goes hand in hand with the intention pursued: to moralize the exercise of power embodied in the person of the princeps considered as the "procurator" of the State.
The De republica was rediscovered in 1822 in the Vatican in the form of an incomplete palimpsest, but it was able to be reconstructed and completed thanks to the extracts found from this treatise in Saint Augustine, in particular, or Macrobius who transmitted to us the famous "Dream of Scipio" where Cicero develops the idea of the historical immortality of great politicians. The treatise on destiny sets out the discussions on the problem of determinism and on the notion of causality, and it offers a reflection on contingency which completes the account of political and historical action.
"Tel" Collection.
Orator, lawyer, consul, public figure and man of action engaged in political struggles, Cicero died with the Roman Republic in 43 BC, but he continued to be nourished by the Greek sources of philosophy, without ever having defended contemplative leisure. He defends, unlike the Epicureans, the duty of political engagement, and seeks to establish a law of balance for cities that integrates and combines the positive aspects of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. The Aristotelianism of this intention goes hand in hand with the intention pursued: to moralize the exercise of power embodied in the person of the princeps considered as the "procurator" of the State.
The De republica was rediscovered in 1822 in the Vatican in the form of an incomplete palimpsest, but it was able to be reconstructed and completed thanks to the extracts found from this treatise in Saint Augustine, in particular, or Macrobius who transmitted to us the famous "Dream of Scipio" where Cicero develops the idea of the historical immortality of great politicians. The treatise on destiny sets out the discussions on the problem of determinism and on the notion of causality, and it offers a reflection on contingency which completes the account of political and historical action.