Verfasst von:	Paulson, Lex [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Cicero and the people's will
Titelzusatz:	philosophy and power at the end of the Roman Republic
Verf.angabe:	Lex Paulson, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	xv, 269 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-316-51411-5
	978-1-009-07738-5
Abstract:	"This book tells an overlooked story in the history of the will, a contested idea in both politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will as it would become in Western thought and who invents the idea of 'the will of the people'. In a single word - voluntas - he brings Roman law in contact with Greek ideas, chief among them Plato's claim that a rational elite must rule. When the republic falls to Caesarism, Cicero turns his political argument inward: will is a force to win the virtue in the soul that was lost on the battlefield, the marker of inner freedom in an unfree age. Though his vision of a free republic failed in his time, Cicero's ideal of rational elitism has shaped and fractured the modern world - and Ciceronian creativity may yet save it"--
Schlagwörter:	(p)Cicero, Marcus Tullius    / (s)Politische Theorie    / (s)Politische Philosophie    / (s)Wille    / (s)Wollen
Dokumenttyp:	Hochschulschrift
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Paulson, Lex: Cicero and the people's will. - Cambridge, United Kingdom, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2023
K10plus-PPN:	1815428422