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Cicero's social and political thought / Neal Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1988.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911284
  • 0520911288
  • 0585124116
  • 9780585124117
  • 0520060423
  • 9780520060425
  • 9780520074279
  • 0520074270
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cicero's social and political thought.DDC classification:
  • 937/.05/0924 19
LOC classification:
  • PA6320 .W66 1988eb
Other classification:
  • 15.52
  • 08.45
  • 15.28
  • 3,6
  • 08.45.
  • 15.28.
  • 15.52.
  • 3,6.
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Cicero's Significance -- Ciceronian Society -- The Changing Social Structure -- Some Characteristics of Roman Government -- The Late Republican Time of Troubles -- Cicero's Life and Works -- Biographical Milestones and Intellectual Influences -- Philosophy as Solace and Guide -- Principal Social and Political Writings -- Law, Justice, and Human Nature -- Natural Law and Natural Justice -- Conception of Man -- Moral Equality and Social Inequality -- The Socially Superior and Inferior -- Vulgar and Gentlemanly Callings -- The Model Gentleman -- Private Property and Its Accumulation -- The Finances and Properties of Cicero -- An Enlightened Economic Individualism -- Town versus Country -- The Idea of the State -- Dedication to the State and Politics -- Definition of the State -- Purpose of the State -- State, Government, and Society -- Types of State -- The Three Simple Constitutions -- Forms of Tyranny -- Essentials of the Mixed Constitution -- The Doctrine prior to Cicero -- The Roman Mixture -- Institutions of the Ideal Mixture -- The Art of Politics -- Nature of Politics -- Violence as a Political Instrument -- Major Ends of Statecraft -- Rudiments of Economic Policy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.

Introduction: Cicero's Significance -- Ciceronian Society -- The Changing Social Structure -- Some Characteristics of Roman Government -- The Late Republican Time of Troubles -- Cicero's Life and Works -- Biographical Milestones and Intellectual Influences -- Philosophy as Solace and Guide -- Principal Social and Political Writings -- Law, Justice, and Human Nature -- Natural Law and Natural Justice -- Conception of Man -- Moral Equality and Social Inequality -- The Socially Superior and Inferior -- Vulgar and Gentlemanly Callings -- The Model Gentleman -- Private Property and Its Accumulation -- The Finances and Properties of Cicero -- An Enlightened Economic Individualism -- Town versus Country -- The Idea of the State -- Dedication to the State and Politics -- Definition of the State -- Purpose of the State -- State, Government, and Society -- Types of State -- The Three Simple Constitutions -- Forms of Tyranny -- Essentials of the Mixed Constitution -- The Doctrine prior to Cicero -- The Roman Mixture -- Institutions of the Ideal Mixture -- The Art of Politics -- Nature of Politics -- Violence as a Political Instrument -- Major Ends of Statecraft -- Rudiments of Economic Policy.

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