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Recovering the Ancient View of Founding

Timothy W. Caspar
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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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Timothy W. Caspar EAN: 9780739134184 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 494 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Lexington Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-15 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Political structures: democracy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Timothy W. Caspar teaches political philosophy and American politics at Hillsdale College.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Timothy W. Caspar EAN: 9780739134184 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 494 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Lexington Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-15 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Political structures: democracy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Timothy W. Caspar teaches political philosophy and American politics at Hillsdale College.

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