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Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Commentary on Cicero's De Legibus


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Recovering the Ancient View of Founding questions the consensus view of contemporary scholars who view Cicero as an eclectic and unoriginal political thinker. For them, De Legibus is perhaps the most striking example of this eclecticism. They say that Cicero claims a universal ground for laws that would restore the political privileges of his own aristocratic class. Yet Timothy Caspar shows that Cicero offers a unified, coherent, and original teaching about politics whose aim is justice for the entire republic, not just a part of it. Contrary to the prevailing view, Cicero does not embrace but rejects Stoicism—and any philosophy that culminates in a community of the wise—as a standard for politics. Instead, nature serves as the foundation of Cicero's laws, and he elucidates a political standard grounded in nature and applicable to all citizens. Thus, the law codes of De Legibus are not only in harmony with but required by Cicero's natural law principles. Caspar's Recovering the Ancient View of Founding is a reinterpretation of a key work of ancient Roman political philosophy and belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in philosophy, politics, or ancient Rome.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction. Reviving the Study of De Legibus Chapter 2 Chapter One. Nature and the Foundation of Just Law Chapter 3 Chapter Two. The Natural Law Republic I: Laws of Religion Chapter 4 Chapter Three. The Natural Law Republic II: Laws of the Magistracy Chapter 5 Conclusion. Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric

About the Author :
Timothy W. Caspar teaches political philosophy and American politics at Hillsdale College.

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Caspar poses a thoughtful challenge to many of the professional dogmas about this work. His commentary brings De Legibus out of the shadows where it has languished, and gives it the illumination it deserves. Today, Cicero's De Legibus is the most misunderstood work of the most misunderstood author in the great tradition of political philosophy. Timothy Caspar recognizes that this strange state of affairs is a serious mistake and boldly sets out to rectify it in this fine book. Thanks to Timothy Caspar’s close reading, this book gets Cicero’s handlers—those scholars who want to make him stick to his philosophical sources—out of the way, so that Cicero can be Cicero! The result is that a renowned statesman and orator is revealed to have been also a great philosopher. A discursive yet exclusively philosophical commentary on the arguments of the dialogue itself.... Overall Caspar offers a very successful challenge to the conventional view that Cicero's Laws is a derivative or misconceived work of political philosophy....By doing so much to return Cicero to the prominent place in the canon of ancient political philosophers that the Renaissance and the Enlightenment regularly awarded him, Caspar has done the contemporary study of political philosophy a great service.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780739134184
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Commentary on Cicero's De Legibus
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0739134183
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2010
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 494 gr


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