Author: Sharples, R. W.
Title: *Cicero Marcus Tullius, On Fate & Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy iv, 5-7, V
Place edition: Warminster
Editor: Aris & Phillips
Year edition: 1991
Pages: VII-244
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Éditions - Edizioni - Editions, Traduction - Traduzione - Translation
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Author initials: Sharples 1991
Title: *Cicero Marcus Tullius, On Fate & Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy iv, 5-7, V
Place edition: Warminster
Editor: Aris & Phillips
Year edition: 1991
Pages: VII-244
Keywords: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Éditions - Edizioni - Editions, Traduction - Traduzione - Translation
Review:
Knecht Daniel, « L’antiquité classique », Tome 63, pp. 391-392, 1994
Description: 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 (De Fato), 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' Consolation of Philosophy (Philosophiae Consolationis) is linked with Cicero's treatise by its theme, the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom. The book presents Latin text with facing-page English translation, introduction and commentary [Editor]Works:
Author initials: Sharples 1991
