Author: Nicgorski, Walter
Title: The Practical Basis and Coherence of Cicero’s Socratic Philosophy
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: 15-32
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Walter Nicgorski argues that the key to Cicero’s philosophical coherence is his fundamental allegiance to Socrates. Cicero’s Socratism, he argues, manifests itself in Cicero’s love of knowledge and wisdom, his practical orientation, his method of inquiry, and his (moderate) skepticism. Nicgorski thus offers a unified account of Cicero’s philosophical identity by interpreting Cicero’s methodology as a radicalization of an earlier “Socratic turn,” wherein the active political life and its aims are the highest human calling [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 4].
Author initials: Nicgorski 2025
Title: The Practical Basis and Coherence of Cicero’s Socratic Philosophy
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: 15-32
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: Walter Nicgorski argues that the key to Cicero’s philosophical coherence is his fundamental allegiance to Socrates. Cicero’s Socratism, he argues, manifests itself in Cicero’s love of knowledge and wisdom, his practical orientation, his method of inquiry, and his (moderate) skepticism. Nicgorski thus offers a unified account of Cicero’s philosophical identity by interpreting Cicero’s methodology as a radicalization of an earlier “Socratic turn,” wherein the active political life and its aims are the highest human calling [Hahmann & Vazquez 2025, 4].
Author initials: Nicgorski 2025
