This book explores Cicero's moral and political philosophy with
great attention to his life and thought as a whole. The author
"thinks through" Cicero with a close reading of his most important
philosophical writings. Nicgorski often resolves apparent tensions
in Cicero's thought that have posed obstacles to the appreciation
of his practical philosophy. Some of the major tensions confronted
are those between his Academic skepticism and apparent Stoicism,
between his commitment to philosophy and to politics, rhetoric and
oratory, and between his attachment to Greek philosophy and his
profound engagement in Roman culture. Moreover, the key theme
within Cicero's writings is his intended recovery, within his Roman
context, of both the Socratic focus on great questions of practical
philosophy and Socratic skepticism. Cicero's recovery of Socratic
political philosophy in Roman garb is then the basis for recovery
of Cicero as a notable political thinker relevant to our time and
its problems.
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