De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Repu...
De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would survive, Cicero here handed on the insights of an elder statesman, adept at political theory and practice, to his son, and through him, to the younger generation in general. De Officiis has often been treated merely as a key to the lost Greek works that Cicero used. This volume aims to render De Officiis, which was such an important influence on later masterpieces of Western political thought, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. A wholly new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and all the standard features of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, including a chronology, select bibliography, and notes on the vocabulary and significant individuals mentioned in the text.
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西塞罗 作者
哲夫成城
中国政法大学出版社2003版
百斤大老鼠
译林出版社2015版
Hunter-zhou
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0 有用 skeeter 2009-03-18 01:01:40
ste told me Cicero is famous for being boring...anyway, a standard Roman period, think about Han period.
1 有用 装睡的人 2020-05-01 07:30:01
《论义务》真的已经算是西塞罗相对不太吹自己牛逼的作品了……HBO版的《罗马》找了经典版《傲慢与偏见》里演Mr. Collins的那位来扮演西塞罗，简直完美抓住了西塞罗的猥琐气质。
0 有用 Manchild 2015-01-30 11:09:23
看得出后来到阿伦特的系谱，特别是讨论所谓“邻人”的部分，连《人的境况》里引用老加图的话都一模一样，但是真的欣赏不来这种干瘪的古典文风。
0 有用 春日球 2011-12-27 20:34:56
“道德哲学是哲学中最高级的，因为它指导我们的生活”。非常好。但无助于任何我们的认识水平。成功的政治学（甚至这个都置疑，义利之辩与实践之间的联系、特别是政治联系逻辑不紧密），但是是缺乏根基的伦理学：植根于怀疑主义的自然法本身就是个古怪的选择。
0 有用 Vita Nova 2023-11-23 15:10:37 美国
无聊的点就是文风实在会让人想到中学生应试八股作文：讲一两句观点然后举一万个例子，QED.