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Book Synopsis
This edition of Cicero’s texts on Stoic ethics, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Liber III and Parodoxa Stoicorum, presents the arguments to the modern reader in a clear and accessible form, and in a way that allows those with only a little Latin to follow the original text. Text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Background
II. Goodness, Knowledge and Happiness
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Cyrenaics and Cynics
III. Epicurus
IV. The Stoics
V. Philosophy at Rome
VI. De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
VII. Paradoxa Stoicorum
VIII. The Text

Notes to the Introduction
Texts and Translations
De Finibus III
Paradoxa Stoicorum
Appendix: Pro Murena 61–63
Commentary on De Finibus III
Summary of De Finibus III
Commentary on Paradoxa Stoicorum
Glossary of Stoic Terms
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Names

Cicero On Stoic Good and Evil De Finibus Bonorum

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780856684678, 978-0856684678
      ISBN10: 0856684678
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This edition of Cicero’s texts on Stoic ethics, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Liber III and Parodoxa Stoicorum, presents the arguments to the modern reader in a clear and accessible form, and in a way that allows those with only a little Latin to follow the original text. Text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      I. Background
      II. Goodness, Knowledge and Happiness
      Socrates
      Plato
      Aristotle
      Cyrenaics and Cynics
      III. Epicurus
      IV. The Stoics
      V. Philosophy at Rome
      VI. De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
      VII. Paradoxa Stoicorum
      VIII. The Text

      Notes to the Introduction
      Texts and Translations
      De Finibus III
      Paradoxa Stoicorum
      Appendix: Pro Murena 61–63
      Commentary on De Finibus III
      Summary of De Finibus III
      Commentary on Paradoxa Stoicorum
      Glossary of Stoic Terms
      Bibliography
      Index of Passages
      Index of Names

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