Paradoxa Stoicorum
The Stoic Paradoxes is a work by Cicero.
Contents
Dating
Written in 46 BC (ref. - p. 39).[1]
Manuscripts
The earliest dates from the 9th century C.E. (ref. - p. 124).[2]
Contents
Webb states Cicero was motivated to write the work in order to re-express Stoic arguments within the language of rhetorical Latin, a view which is supported by the fact of Cicero stating his effort is in order to make a version of an original Greek work in a language appropriate for the mode of the Forum.[3]
Dedication
The work is dedicated to a person named Brutus.[4]
Subject
The subject of the work is the support of a principle of stoic thought, this being the paradoxes.[1] The work is concerned specifically with six of these:[5]
I - Virtue is the only good
II - Virtue is sufficient for happiness (Virtue is all that is needed for happiness [6])
III - All the vices and all virtues are equal
IV - All fools are madmen
V - The sage alone is free (Only the sage is free and every fool is a slave [6])
VI - Only the wise man is rich
Scholarship
Debate has identified a vein of thought running along both this piece and within the body of the Pro Murena.[7][8]
Marcantonius Majoragio ( 1514-1555 AD [9]) wrote a work, perhaps a diatribe, in the least contrary to Cicero, entitled the antiparadoxon [10][11]
References
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Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum (Latin) (ed. J. G. Baiter, C. L. Kayser)
the book of Cicero entitled Paradoxa Stoicorum - Containing a precise discourse of diverse points and conclusions of virtue and philosophy according (to the) philosophers called Stoiks. Within this also is taken and placed a philosophical treatise of the same author called Scipio his dream. Published in the year 1569
translated by Thomas Newton
URL: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18880.0001.001
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- ↑ B.P. Wallach - Rhetoric and Paradox: Cicero, 'Paradoxa Stoicorum IV' Hermes 118. Bd., H. 2 (1990), pp. 171-183 Published by: Franz Steiner Verlag [Retrieved 2015-04-08]
- ↑ Encyclopædia Brittanica - Pro-Murena[Retrieved 2015-04-08](ed. used only to identify nature of the thing which is < Pro Murena >)
- ↑ TB Deutscher (professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.) - Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, Volumes 1-3 University of Toronto Press, 2003[Retrieved 2015-04-08]
- ↑ J Papy - Christian Humanism: Essays in Honour of Arjo Vanderjagt BRILL, 2009 (edited by AAA MacDonald - Ph.D. (1978), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen, ZRWM von Martels - Ph.D. (1989), University of Groningen, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Groningenĥ, J Riepke Veenstra - Ph.D. (1997), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, is currently Lecturer in English at the University of Groningen) ISBN 9004176314 [Retrieved 2015-04-09]
- ↑ Merriam-Webster - diatribe [Retrieved 2015-04-09]
