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Cicero on the emotions : Tusculan disputations 3 and 4 /

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...

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Main Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Other Authors: Graver, Margaret.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Latin
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ℗♭2002.
Subjects:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Tusculanae disputationes 3-4.
Emotions > Early works to 1800.
Happiness > Early works to 1800.
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Emotions.
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Early works.
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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, the.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xli, 254 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
ISBN: 9780226305196
0226305198

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