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De fato = On fate / Cicero. The consolation of philosophy / Boethius ; edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by R.W. Sharples.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Series:
- Aris & Phillips classical texts.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Aris & Phillips classical texts
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Consolation--Early works to 1800.
- Consolation.
- Fate and fatalism--Early works to 1800.
- Fate and fatalism.
- Philosophy, Ancient--Sources.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Parallel Latin text and English translation, with English introduction and notes.
- Summary:
- Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe, which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero's treatise 'On Fate', though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them. Study of the treatise has been hindered by the lack of a combined Latin text and English translation based on a clear understanding of the arguments; this edition is intended to meet this need. The last book of Boethius' 'The Consolation of Philosophy' is linked with Cicero's treatise by its theme, the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 28, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De fato.
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De fato. English.
- Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae.
- Boethius, -524. De consolatione philosophiae. English.
- ISBN:
- 1-80034-304-3
- 1-80034-648-4
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