Author: Stiening, Gideon
Title: “From the innermost and deepest grounds of philosophy”: On the Place of Cicero in Francisco Suárez’s De Legibus ac Deo Legislatore
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: 285-306
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Gideon Stiening reviews Francisco Suárez’s magnum opus of legal philosophy, De legibus ac Deo legislatore, which contains many references to Cicero’s De legibus. According to Stiening, Suárez’s references are not merely decorative, but instead play a critical argumentative function. In particular, Cicero serves as a weighty example who illustrates both the merits and limits of a secular philosophy of law—which, according to Suárez, is as necessary as it is in need of supplementation by the perspectives of theology [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 8].
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Author initials: Stiening 2025
Title: “From the innermost and deepest grounds of philosophy”: On the Place of Cicero in Francisco Suárez’s De Legibus ac Deo Legislatore
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: 285-306
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Gideon Stiening reviews Francisco Suárez’s magnum opus of legal philosophy, De legibus ac Deo legislatore, which contains many references to Cicero’s De legibus. According to Stiening, Suárez’s references are not merely decorative, but instead play a critical argumentative function. In particular, Cicero serves as a weighty example who illustrates both the merits and limits of a secular philosophy of law—which, according to Suárez, is as necessary as it is in need of supplementation by the perspectives of theology [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 8].
Works:
Author initials: Stiening 2025
