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Republican Virtues
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Abstract
Talk of the virtues, something of signal importance in the entire Western republican tradition, was seldom absent from Cicero’s lips, whether in his oratory, letters, or theoretical writings. He is forever listing virtues or concatenating virtue words. This chapter examines some of the more theoretically grounded lists that he proposes in three of his opening chapters: civic (in On the commonwealth), Roman (in Tusculan disputations), and cardinal (in On duties). His frequent pairing of constantia and gravitas is highlighted, and his treatments in On duties of justice, magnitudo animi, and verecundia are of particular interest and receive extended discussions. The chapter concludes with a portrait of Cicero’s supremely reliable and honest republican citizen as exemplar of virtue.
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Abstract
Talk of the virtues, something of signal importance in the entire Western republican tradition, was seldom absent from Cicero’s lips, whether in his oratory, letters, or theoretical writings.
He is forever listing virtues or concatenating virtue words.
This chapter examines some of the more theoretically grounded lists that he proposes in three of his opening chapters: civic (in On the commonwealth), Roman (in Tusculan disputations), and cardinal (in On duties).
His frequent pairing of constantia and gravitas is highlighted, and his treatments in On duties of justice, magnitudo animi, and verecundia are of particular interest and receive extended discussions.
The chapter concludes with a portrait of Cicero’s supremely reliable and honest republican citizen as exemplar of virtue.
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