Author: Veillard, Christelle
Title: Cicero’s De Officiis: A Cradle for Modern Ethics?
Review/Collection: in Hahmann, Andree & Vazquez, Michael, Cicero as Philosopher - New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy, De Gruyter, 2025, 412 p.
Place edition: Berlin Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2025
Pages: 173-196
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Christelle Veillard provides a close reading of De officiis, highlighting Cicero’s creative appropriation of Stoic views on duty, propriety, and moral character. The result is a distinctively Ciceronian conception of the vir bonus, an ethical ideal rooted in justice and human community, and whose legacy is evident in paradigms of the ‘gentleman’ in later centuries [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 6].
Works:
Author initials: Veillard 2025
Title: Cicero’s De Officiis: A Cradle for Modern Ethics?
Review/Collection: in Hahmann, Andree & Vazquez, Michael, Cicero as Philosopher - New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy, De Gruyter, 2025, 412 p.
Place edition: Berlin Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2025
Pages: 173-196
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Christelle Veillard provides a close reading of De officiis, highlighting Cicero’s creative appropriation of Stoic views on duty, propriety, and moral character. The result is a distinctively Ciceronian conception of the vir bonus, an ethical ideal rooted in justice and human community, and whose legacy is evident in paradigms of the ‘gentleman’ in later centuries [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 6].
Works:
Author initials: Veillard 2025
