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Cicero: On Fate, with Boethius, Consolation V (Classical Texts) (Latin Edition)
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Description for Cicero: On Fate, with Boethius, Consolation V (Classical Texts) (Latin Edition)
Paperback. Translator(s): Sharples, R. W. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero’s treatise On Fate (De Fato), though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them. Study of the treatise has been hindered by the lack of a combined Latin text and English translation based ... Read more
Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero’s treatise On Fate (De Fato), though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them. Study of the treatise has been hindered by the lack of a combined Latin text and English translation based ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856684760
SKU
V9780856684760
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About Cicero
R.W. Sharples was Professor of Classics at University College London. He is the author of several books including Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (Routledge, 1996).
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