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On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public life, and the right and wrong ways of attaining...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Sprog: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Online adgang: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/99056114-d.html |
| Summary: | On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent tensions between honourable conduct and expediency in public life, and the right and wrong ways of attaining political leadership. The principles of honourable behaviour are based on the Stoic virtues of wisdom, justice, magnanimity, and propriety; in Cicero's view the
intrinsically useful is always identical with the honourable.
Cicero's famous treatise has played a seminal role in the formation of ethical values in western Christendom. Adopted by the fourth-century Christian humanists, it beame transmuted into the moral code of the high Middle Ages. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | lx, 218 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199540716 |