Author: Straumann, Benjamin
Title: Ein Naturrecht für Skeptiker: Cicero und die Aufklärung in Basel
Review/Collection: In : Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric (ed.), Cicero in Basel, Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City, De Gruyter, 2024, 374 p.
Place edition: Berlin, Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 285-302
Keywords: Éditions - Edizioni - Editions, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Benjamin Straumann takes a closer look at Cicero’s influence on the idea of natural law in Enlightenment philosophy. In their attempts to establish the ultimate foundations of justice and sociability, Enlightenment thinkers from Grotius to Hume sought to overcome the tension between dogmatic and sceptic positions, a tension which they found prefigured in Cicero’s philosophical dialogues. While Basel intellectuals like Isaak Iselin were important voices in this debate, Straumann shows that it was again the printing and publishing industry that allowed Basel to play a pivotal role: The liberal climate of the city-state allowed the publication of reprints of works in English and French to flourish, and Basel became a hub for the dissemination of central works, especially of the Scottish Enlightenment, in continental Europe [Scheidegger Laemmle 2024,16].
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111454641-014/pdf
Author initials: Straumann 2024
Title: Ein Naturrecht für Skeptiker: Cicero und die Aufklärung in Basel
Review/Collection: In : Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric (ed.), Cicero in Basel, Locating Classical Reception in a Humanist City, De Gruyter, 2024, 374 p.
Place edition: Berlin, Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 285-302
Keywords: Éditions - Edizioni - Editions, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Benjamin Straumann takes a closer look at Cicero’s influence on the idea of natural law in Enlightenment philosophy. In their attempts to establish the ultimate foundations of justice and sociability, Enlightenment thinkers from Grotius to Hume sought to overcome the tension between dogmatic and sceptic positions, a tension which they found prefigured in Cicero’s philosophical dialogues. While Basel intellectuals like Isaak Iselin were important voices in this debate, Straumann shows that it was again the printing and publishing industry that allowed Basel to play a pivotal role: The liberal climate of the city-state allowed the publication of reprints of works in English and French to flourish, and Basel became a hub for the dissemination of central works, especially of the Scottish Enlightenment, in continental Europe [Scheidegger Laemmle 2024,16].
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111454641-014/pdf
Author initials: Straumann 2024
