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Free Download Douglas R. Thomas, "Cicero’s Brutus: Edition, Textual Commentary, and Study of the Transmission "
English | ISBN: 0198883943 | 2025 | 368 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Cicero’s Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text, a critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary. The first part of the book presents the study of the manuscript tradition, employng the stemmatic method to establish the relationships between all 107 extant manuscripts of Brutus, and demonstrating that the stemma has three independent branches in the first part of the text and four in the second. The study also shows that the ninth-century Cremona fragment is part of the long-lost archetype, the Codex Laudensis, and that F, the manuscript copied by Niccolò Niccoli, is the source of the majority of the tradition. Brief descriptions are provided of the manuscripts in a catalogue. The second part of the volume presents a new edition of

Free Download Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy edited by Andree Hahmann, Michael Vazquez
English | December 2, 2024 | ISBN: 3111591174 | True EPUB | 418 pages | 2.3 MB
Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has continued to unfold over the centuries, repeatedly inspiring new and independent philosophical positions. Since J.G.F. Powell’s pivotal contribution in 1995, we have witnessed countless translations and scholarly treatments of Cicero’s philosophy that emphasize his creativity and influence. In this tradition, the present volume offers fresh and incisive contributions that advance the ongoing renaissance in Cicero scholarship.

Free Download Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy
by Andree Hahmann, Michael Vazquez
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111591174 | 418 Pages | PDF | 3.25 MB

Free Download T A Dorey, "Cicero "
English | ISBN: 1032611758 | 2023 | 230 pages |
PDF | 9 MB

Free Download Charles B. B. Schmitt, "Cicero Scepticus: A Study of the Influence of the Academica in the Renaissance "
English | ISBN: 9048182549 | 2010 | 229 pages | EPUB | 630 KB
As originally planned this volume was meant to cover a somewhat wider scope than, in fact, it has turned out to do. When, in rg68, I initially conceived of preparing it, it was proposed to deal with several aspects of early modern scepticism, in addition to the fortuna of the Academica, and to publish various loosely related pieces under the title of ‘Studies in the History of Early Modern Scepticism. ‘ Thereby, I foresaw that I would exhaust my knowledge of the subject and would then be able to turn my attention to other matters. In initiating my research on this topic, however, I soon found that there remained a much greater bulk of material to study than could possibly be dealt with between the covers of the single modest volume which I envisioned. My proposed section on Cicero’s Academica was to cover between 50 and 75 pages in the original plan. It soon became apparent, however, especially after Joannes Rosa’s hitherto unstudied commentary on Cicero’s work was uncovered, that this material would have to be treated at a much greater length than I had foreseen. The present volume is the result of this expanded investigation. The monograph which has come from this alteration in plans has, I think, the virtues of continuity and cohesive ness and one hopes that these advantages offset the benefits of a broader scope which were sacrificed.

Free Download Cicero’s Topica By Cicero, Tobias Reinhardt
2007 | 452 Pages | ISBN: 0199207712 | PDF | 5 MB
Cicero’s Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition of the work that is informed by a full analysis of its transmission.

Free Download Tim Stuart-Buttle, "From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume"
English | ISBN: 0198835582 | 2019 | 288 pages | EPUB | 806 KB
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and sustaining mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to inform how political and moral theorists think about the world in which we live. From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy reconstructs a debate which preoccupied contemporaries but which seems arcane to us today. It concerned the relationship between reason and revelation as the two sources of mankind’s knowledge, particularly in the ethical realm: to what extent, they asked, could reason alone discover the content and obligatory character of morality? This was held to be a historical, rather than a merely theoretical question: had the philosophers of pre-Christian antiquity, ignorant of Christ, been able satisfactorily to explain the moral universe? What role had natural theology played in their ethical theories – and was it consistent with the teachings delivered by revelation? Much recent scholarship has drawn attention to the early-modern interest in two late Hellenistic philosophical traditions – Stoicism and Epicureanism. Yet in the English context, three figures above all – John Locke, Conyers Middleton, and David Hume – quite deliberately and explicitly identified their approaches with Cicero as the representative of an alternative philosophical tradition, critical of both the Stoic and the Epicurean: academic scepticism. All argued that Cicero provided a means of addressing what they considered to be the most pressing question facing contemporary philosophy: the relationship between moral philosophy and moral theology.

Free Download Michael C. Hawley, "Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy"
English | ISBN: 0197582338 | 2022 | 264 pages | EPUB | 670 KB
By any metric, Cicero’s works are some of the most widely read in the history of Western thought. Natural Law Republicanism suggests that perhaps his most lasting and significant contribution to philosophy lies in helping to inspire the development of liberalism. Individual rights, the protection of private property, and political legitimacy based on the consent of the governed are often taken to be among early modern liberalism’s unique innovations and part of its rebellion against classical thought.

Free Download American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll (Lives of the Founders) by Bradley J. Birzer
English | February 15, 2010 | ISBN: 193385989X | 230 pages | PDF | 5.19 Mb
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton-the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence-was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll’s signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but the fascinating new biography American Cicero rescues Carroll from unjust neglect.

Free Download O Tempora! O Mores!: Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations, A Student Edition with Historical Essays By Susan O. Shapiro, Cicero
2005 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0806136626 | PDF | 5 MB
In 63 b.c., Lucius Sergius Catilina, a Roman aristocrat, formed a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic. Cicero, who was consul that year, exposed the Description and documented his defeat of the conspiracy in his Orations against Catiline. The First Catilinarian Oration is well known and deservedly famous. Scholars are familiar with the other three speeches, but few students know them. This lapse is regrettable. The Third Oration is a fast-paced courtroom drama, and the Second and Fourth Orations provide critical information about this key event in Roman history. Susan O. Shapiro here makes all Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations accessible to the intermediate Latin student. O Tempora! O Mores! is designed to fit a variety of pedagogical approaches. Professors can assign any of the Catilinarian Orations independently or assign excerpts from several of the speeches. Shapiro’s historical essays bring a new dimension to Latin study, explaining the history and politics behind the texts. The essays are divided into short sections that can be assigned individually for class discussion. The volume is further amplified by a vocabulary, maps, a bibliography, and appendices.