Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus

Autore: Caspar, Timothy W.
Titolo: Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus
Luogo edizione: Lanham, MD
Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
Anno edizione: 2010
Pagine: 220
Parole chiave: Commentaires - Commenti - Commentaries, Droit - Diritto - Law
Recensione:

Dyck, Andrew R., «BMCRev» marzo 2011

Descrizione: Recovering the Ancient View of Founding questions the consensus view of contemporary scholars who view Cicero as an eclectic and unoriginal political thinker. For them, De Legibus is perhaps the most striking example of this eclecticism. They say that Cicero claims a universal ground for laws that would restore the political privileges of his own aristocratic class. Yet Timothy Caspar shows that Cicero offers a unified, coherent, and original teaching about politics whose aim is justice for the entire republic, not just a part of it. Contrary to the prevailing view, Cicero does not embrace but rejects Stoicism-and any philosophy that culminates in a community of the wise-as a standard for politics. Instead, nature serves as the foundation of Cicero's laws, and he elucidates a political standard grounded in nature and applicable to all citizens. Thus, the law codes of De Legibus are not only in harmony with but required by Cicero's natural law principles.[Editor]
Opere:

• De legibus

Sigla autore: Caspar 2010