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A classic work arguing that the major social and political changes occurring during the last century of the Roman Republic were accompanied by major intellectual developments which saw a move away from traditional understandings of where consensus and authority were to be located to approaches to knowledge based on critical reasoning.

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Foreword Malcolm Schofield; Preface; Introduction to the English edition; Roman culture in movement; 1. Crises and questionings; 2. Opening up the world: the birth of curiosity; 3. From disarray to erudition; 4. The experience of thought; 5. A discourse on the method, or the spirit of forms; 6. The construction of Roman universality; 7. Conclusion: the territories of reason.

The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 9 September 2015
      ISBN-13 9780521895781
      978-0521895781
      ISBN-10 0521895782
      Also in:
      History of ideas

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A classic work arguing that the major social and political changes occurring during the last century of the Roman Republic were accompanied by major intellectual developments which saw a move away from traditional understandings of where consensus and authority were to be located to approaches to knowledge based on critical reasoning.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword Malcolm Schofield; Preface; Introduction to the English edition; Roman culture in movement; 1. Crises and questionings; 2. Opening up the world: the birth of curiosity; 3. From disarray to erudition; 4. The experience of thought; 5. A discourse on the method, or the spirit of forms; 6. The construction of Roman universality; 7. Conclusion: the territories of reason.

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