Table Of ContentTHE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION
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TO CICERO S PHILOSOPHY
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
readersto“Cicerothephilosopher”andtohisphilosophicalwritings.
It provides a handy port of call for those interested in Cicero’s
original contributions to a wide variety of topics such as epistemol-
ogy,theemotions,determinismandresponsibility,cosmopolitanism,
republicanism,philosophical translation, dialogue, aging,friendship,
andmore.Theinternational,interdisciplinaryteamofscholarsrepre-
sented in this volume highlights the historical significance and con-
temporary relevance of Cicero’s writings, and suggests pathways for
future scholarship on Cicero’s philosophy as we move through the
twenty-firstcentury.
. istheE.BlakeByrneAssociateProfessorofClassical
StudiesandAssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceandPhilosophyat
Duke University. He is author ofCiceroon Politics and the Limits of
Reason(Cambridge,)andRomanPoliticalThought(Cambridge,
).
e´ΪL is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the
Université de Lille and a member of the CNRS research institute
Savoirs,Textes,Langage.Heistheauthorandeditorofseveralbooks
and articles in both French and English on ancient philosophy, in
particular Stoicism and its contemporary reception, and is the co-
editor ofthe journal Philosophie antique.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
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COMPANION TO CICERO S
PHILOSOPHY
JED W. ATKINS
DukeUniversity,NorthCarolina
THOMAS BÉNATOUÏL
UniversitédeLille
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Contents
List of Contributors page ix
Preface xiii
Cicero’s Philosophical Works xvi
A Note on Abbreviations xviii
Introduction
ThomasBénatouïl
Cicero’s Philosophical Writing in Its Intellectual Context
Claudia Moatti
The Ciceronian Dialogue
Charles Brittain and Peter Osorio
Philosophy in Cicero’s Letters
Sophie Aubert-Baillot
Philosophy in Cicero’s Speeches
Catherine Steel
Cicero and the Creation of a Latin Philosophical Vocabulary
Carlos Lévy
Cicero and Plato
Malcolm Schofield
Cicero’s Academic Skepticism
Tobias Reinhardt
Cosmology, Theology, and Religion
Clara Auvray-Assayas
Determinism, Fate, and Responsibility
Elisabeth Begemann
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Cicero on the Emotions and the Soul
Sean McConnell
Ethical Theory and the Good Life
Raphael Woolf
Nature and Social Ethics
GretchenReydams-Schils
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Politics
Gary Remer
Cicero’s Republicanism
WalterNicgorski
Empire, Just Wars, and Cosmopolitanism
JedW. Atkins
Cicero and Augustine
Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic
Cicero and Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Daniel J.Kapust
Cicero and Twenty-First-Century Political Philosophy
Martha C. Nussbaum
Bibliography
Index of Cicero’s Texts
General Index
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Contributors
. is the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Classical
Studiesand Associate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy,Duke
University. He is author of Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason
() and Roman Political Thought ().
- isProfessorinLatin,UniversityofLille(France).
She is author of Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cicéron
()andeditor(withCharlesGuérin)ofLeBrutusdeCicéron().
- is Professor in Latin, University of Rouen
Normandie (France). She is the author of Cicéron () and Cicéron: la
naturedesdieux().Shehasco-edited(withDanielDelattre)Cicéronet
Philodème ().
is a research fellow at the Max Weber Centre for
Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt (Germany).
She is the author of Schicksal als Argument: Ciceros Rede vom fatum in der
späten Republik ().
e´ÏL is Professor in Ancient Philosophy, University of
Lille (France). His books include Faire usage: la pratique du stoïcisme
() and La science des hommes libres: la digression du Théétète de
Platon (). He is the editor (with Katerina Ierodiakonou) of Dialectic
after Plato and Aristotle ().
- isProfessorinLatin,Universityof
Lille(France).SheistheauthorofL’ordrecaché.Lanotiond’ordrechezsaint
Augustin () and has edited or co-edited many volumes, including
(with Carlos Lévy) Scepticisme et religion () and Magna voce. Effets et
pouvoirs de la voix dans la philosophie et la littérature antiques ().
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