Tusculan disputationsCicero, Chase, Thomas

Tusculan disputations

by Cicero, Chase, Thomas

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  • kashyapc · Sep 30, 2020 · Recommends

    …'book' covers Stoic ethics in highly compressed form. Recommended English translation: "Cicero On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)"; it also has very useful footnotes. • Tusculan Disputations — horrendous name (more correctly called: "Discussions at my villa in Tusculum"), but excellent content. It covers five themes ("disputations"); two of them written when Cicero was grieving from the…

    on “On Old Age” ↗
  • rramadass · May 25, 2024 · Recommends

    On the subject of Grief (and in general Emotions), a study of the works of the Roman Stoics, Cicero and Seneca (and earlier Epictetus) are a must. In particular; see Cicero and the Emotions : Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 by Margaret Graver. - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo364132... A good review here - https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2002/2002.09.15/

    on “The Strangeness of Grief (2019)” ↗

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