Auteur: Furley, David J.
Titre: Aristotelian material in Cicero’s De natura deorum
Revue/Collection: in: Cicero's knowledge of the Peripatos / ed. by Fortenbaugh William W.& Steinmetz Peter, VIII, 281; Rutgers Univ. stud. in classical humanities ; 4
Lieu èdition: New Brunswick & N.J
Éditeur: Transaction Publ
Annèe edition: 1989
Pages: 201-219
Mots-clès: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Religion - Religione - Religion, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: This chapter begins with some remarks about the setting of the dialogue of Cicero. The conversation takes place when Cicero takes up an invitation to visit Gaius Cotta at his home on the day of the Latin Festival. He finds a conversation already under way between Cotta, and two other friends: Senator Gaius Velleius, and Quintus Lucilius Balbus. Cicero remarks that he has had the luck to find representatives of three schools of philosophy and only Marcus Piso is missing from a complete representation of all the reputable schools. Velleius gives to Aristotle four notions of the nature of god. None of them is precisely transparent, but it is possible to make some sense of all of them as loose descriptions of Aristotelian doctrine. It seems likely that the eternity of the cosmos was one of the main themes of On Philosophy [Author].
Oeuvres:
Sigle auteur: Furley 1989
Titre: Aristotelian material in Cicero’s De natura deorum
Revue/Collection: in: Cicero's knowledge of the Peripatos / ed. by Fortenbaugh William W.& Steinmetz Peter, VIII, 281; Rutgers Univ. stud. in classical humanities ; 4
Lieu èdition: New Brunswick & N.J
Éditeur: Transaction Publ
Annèe edition: 1989
Pages: 201-219
Mots-clès: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Religion - Religione - Religion, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: This chapter begins with some remarks about the setting of the dialogue of Cicero. The conversation takes place when Cicero takes up an invitation to visit Gaius Cotta at his home on the day of the Latin Festival. He finds a conversation already under way between Cotta, and two other friends: Senator Gaius Velleius, and Quintus Lucilius Balbus. Cicero remarks that he has had the luck to find representatives of three schools of philosophy and only Marcus Piso is missing from a complete representation of all the reputable schools. Velleius gives to Aristotle four notions of the nature of god. None of them is precisely transparent, but it is possible to make some sense of all of them as loose descriptions of Aristotelian doctrine. It seems likely that the eternity of the cosmos was one of the main themes of On Philosophy [Author].
Oeuvres:
Sigle auteur: Furley 1989
