Auteur: Stuart-Buttle, Tim
Titre: Testing the Limits of Reason: The Place of Cicero in Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law
Revue/Collection: in Hahmann, Andree & Vazquez, Michael, Cicero as Philosopher - New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy, De Gruyter, 2025, 412 p.
Lieu èdition: Berlin Boston
Éditeur: De Gruyter
Annèe edition: 2025
Pages: 367-391
Mots-clès: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Tim Stuart-Buttle considers Cicero’s pivotal influence on the thought of John Locke, but he looks to Locke’s public invocations of Cicero and of the ancient philosophical tradition rather than conducting a comparative analysis of their positions. This approach enables Stuart-Buttle to draw subtle and novel conclusions about Locke’s debts to Cicero on the limits of reason and philosophical inquiry into the foundations of morality, the nature of the soul, and the divine. Stuart-Buttle’s historically sensitive account helps us to appreciate the depth of Locke’s debts to Cicero, as well as the deeply un-Ciceronian elements and innovations of Lockean political theory [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 9].
Sigle auteur: Stuart-Buttle 2025
Titre: Testing the Limits of Reason: The Place of Cicero in Locke’s Doctrine of Natural Law
Revue/Collection: in Hahmann, Andree & Vazquez, Michael, Cicero as Philosopher - New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy, De Gruyter, 2025, 412 p.
Lieu èdition: Berlin Boston
Éditeur: De Gruyter
Annèe edition: 2025
Pages: 367-391
Mots-clès: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Tim Stuart-Buttle considers Cicero’s pivotal influence on the thought of John Locke, but he looks to Locke’s public invocations of Cicero and of the ancient philosophical tradition rather than conducting a comparative analysis of their positions. This approach enables Stuart-Buttle to draw subtle and novel conclusions about Locke’s debts to Cicero on the limits of reason and philosophical inquiry into the foundations of morality, the nature of the soul, and the divine. Stuart-Buttle’s historically sensitive account helps us to appreciate the depth of Locke’s debts to Cicero, as well as the deeply un-Ciceronian elements and innovations of Lockean political theory [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 9].
Sigle auteur: Stuart-Buttle 2025
