Cicero and the People’s Will : Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic
by
Lex Paulson
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1316514110
ISBN-13
9781316514115
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2022
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
496 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 15.80 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Ancient history: to c 500 CEWestern philosophy: Ancient, to c 500Social & political philosophy
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The first book to trace Cicero's role in inventing 'the will of the people' and the will as an engine of self-creation. Adept at Greek philosophy and defender of a dying republic, Cicero's ideal of rational elitism has both shaped and fractured the modern world.
"This book tells an overlooked story in the history of the will, a contested idea in both politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will as it would become in Western thought and who invents the idea of ''the will of the people''. In a single word - voluntas - he brings Roman law in contact with Greek ideas, chief among them Plato''s claim that a rational elite must rule. When the republic falls to Caesarism, Cicero turns his political argument inward: will is a force to win the virtue in the soul that was lost on the battlefield, the marker of inner freedom in an unfree age. Though his vision of a free republic failed in his time, Cicero''s ideal of rational elitism has shaped and fractured the modern world - and Ciceronian creativity may yet save it"--
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