Cicero on the emotions : Tusculan disputations 3 and 4 / translated and with commentary by Margaret Graver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Contributor:

Graver, Margaret.

Standardized Title:

Tusculanae disputationes. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Early works to 1850.

Emotions.

Happiness--Early works to 1800.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The third and fourth books of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations deal with the nature and management of human emotion: first grief, then the emotions in general. In lively and accessible style, Cicero presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicureans and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position, which he himself favors for its close reasoning and moral earnestness. Both the specialist and the general reader will be fascinated by the Stoics' analysis of the causes of grief, their classification of emotions by genus and species, their lists of oddly named character flaws, and by the philosophical debate that develops over the utility of anger in politics and war. Margaret Graver's elegant and idiomatic translation makes Cicero's work accessible not just to classicists but to anyone interested in ancient philosophy and psychotherapy or in the philosophy of emotion. The accompanying commentary explains the philosophical concepts discussed in the text and supplies many helpful parallels from Greek sources.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS AND MATTERS OF CITATION

INTRODUCTION

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

ABOUT THE TRANSLATION

TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS

COMMENTARY

APPENDIXES: SOURCES FOR CICERO'S ACCOUNT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX LOCORUM

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426520

9781282426528

1282426524

9780226305196

0226305198

OCLC:

527658204