Magnitudo animi and cosmic politics in Cicero’s De re publica

Autore: McConnell, Sean
Titolo: Magnitudo animi and cosmic politics in Cicero’s De re publica
Rivista/Miscellanea: "The Classical Journal", 113
Anno edizione: 2017
Pagine: 45-70
Parole chiave: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Politique - Politica - Politics
Descrizione: This paper offers a fresh interpretation of the role played by the Dream of Scipio in Cicero's De re publica. It explores Cicero's key distinction between the cosmic and the local levels of statesmanship and the problems he sees with localism, and it details fully for the first time the importance that Cicero attached to the virtue of magnitudo animi (“greatness of soul”). The paper makes the case that in De re publica Cicero promotes his own innovative cosmic model of politics, in which magnitudo animi is developed through an educational process situated in the traditional Roman mos maiorum. [Author]
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Sigla autore: McConnell 2017