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On Obligations - De Officiis (Paperback)
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On Obligations - De Officiis (Paperback)
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On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC
after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of
behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent
tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public life,
and the right and wrong ways of attaining political leadership. The
principles of honourable behaviour are based on the Stoic virtues
of wisdom, justice, magnanimity, and propriety; in Cicero's view
the intrinsically useful is always identical with the honourable.
Cicero's famous treatise has played a seminal role in the formation
of ethical values in western Christendom. Adopted by the
fourth-century Christian humanists, it beame transmuted into the
moral code of the high Middle Ages. Thereafter, in the Renaissance
from the time of Petrarch, and in the Age of Enlightenment that
followed, it was given central prominence in discussion of the
government of states. Today, when corruption and conflict in
political life are the focus of so much public attention, On
Obligations is still the foremost guide to good conduct. ABOUT THE
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