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Cicero's social and political thought /

Main Author: Wood, Neal.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988.
Subjects:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius > Contributions in political science.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius > Contributions in social sciences.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, > 106 B.C.-43 B.C.
Political science > History. > Rome
HISTORY > Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Political science.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Rome > Politics and government > 265-30 B.C.
Rome > Social conditions > 510-30 B.C.
Rome (Empire)
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Table of 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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