The Nature Of The Gods
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The Nature Of The Gods
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Author : Cicero
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-10-28
The Nature Of The Gods written by Cicero and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-28 with Religion categories.
Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores his own views on these subjects, as a monotheist and member of the Academic School, and considers the opinion of other philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age through the figures of Velleius the Epicurean and Balbus the Stoic. Eloquent, clearly argued and surprisingly modern, it focuses upon a series of fundamental religious questions including: is there a God? If so, does he answer prayers, or intervene in human affairs? Does he know the future? Does morality need the support of religion? Profoundly influential on later thinkers, such as Saint Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, this is a fascinating consideration of fundamental issues of faith and philosophical thought.
The Nature Of The Gods
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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Cicero On The Philosophy Of Religion
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Author : J. P. F. Wynne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-17
Cicero On The Philosophy Of Religion written by J. P. F. Wynne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Philosophy categories.
Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.
On The Nature Of The Gods
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher: Fortress of the Mind Publications
Release Date : 2023-08-25
On The Nature Of The Gods written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and has been published by Fortress of the Mind Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with Philosophy categories.
This new, original translation of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods is the first to appear in many years. Do the gods exist? Is there a divine order to the universe? And if there is, what is humanity’s role in this grand conception? Does a divine power care about human affairs? These are just a few of the profound questions discussed in Cicero’s philosophical masterpiece. In dialogues that showcase the differing perspectives of the Stoic, Epicurean, and Academic schools, Cicero delves into a stunning variety of subjects, including human anatomy, theology, cosmology, astronomy, biology, and divination. The persistent themes of Cicero’s vision are his insistence on a moral basis for human conduct, the existence of free will and human agency, and his soaring faith in the unique role reserved for the human race in the universe’s destiny. It is no wonder that Voltaire called On the Nature of the Gods, along with Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, “[the] two most beautiful works ever composed by human wisdom.” Translator Quintus Curtius has returned to the original Latin text to produce a fresh, modern, illustrated English edition that breathes new life into a long-neglected classic of Western thought. The text is extensively annotated, and formatted using modern dialogue conventions for ease of reading. Also included are an explanatory introduction, topical content list, and a comprehensive index. Cicero’s seminal work has much to tell us today, and with this translation has never been more accessible to the modern reader.
The Treatises Of M T Cicero
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Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
The Treatises Of M T Cicero written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with Latin literature categories.
On The Nature Of The Gods
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Author : Cicero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-08
On The Nature Of The Gods written by Cicero and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-08 with categories.
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman orator Cicero written in 45 BC. It is laid out in three books, each of which discusses the theology of different Roman and Greek philosophers. The dialogue uses a discussion of Stoic, Epicurean, and skeptical theories to examine fundamental questions of theology.The dialogue is on the whole narrated by Cicero himself, though he does not play an active part in the discussion. Gaius Velleius represents the Epicurean school, Quintus Lucilius Balbus argues for the Stoics, and Gaius Cotta speaks for Cicero's own Academic skepticism. The first book of the dialogue contains Cicero's introduction, Velleius' case for the Epicurean theology and Cotta's criticism of Epicureanism. Book II focuses on Balbus' explanation and defense of Stoic theology. Book III lays out Cotta's criticism of Balbus' claims. Cicero's conclusions are ambivalent and muted, "a strategy of civilized openness"; he does, however, conclude that Balbus' claims, in his mind, more nearly approximate the truth (3.95).This work, although not written by an orthodox Epicurean or Stoic, is important because it supplements the scant primary texts that remain from Epicureans and Stoics discussing their views on religion and theology. In particular, heated scholarly debate has focused on this text's discussion at 1.43-44 of how the Epicurean gods may be said to "exist"; David Sedley, for example, holds that Epicureans, as represented in this text and elsewhere, think that "gods are our own graphic idealization of the life to which we aspire", whereas David Konstan maintains that "the Epicurean gods are real, in the sense that they exist as atomic compounds and possess the properties that pertain to the concept, or prolēpsis, that people have of them."This work, alongside De Officiis and De Divinatione, was highly influential on the philosophes of the 18th century; Voltaire called it "perhaps the best book of all antiquity".
Nature S God The Heretical Origins Of The American Republic
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Author : Matthew Stewart
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Nature S God The Heretical Origins Of The American Republic written by Matthew Stewart and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Political Science categories.
Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s revolutionaries drew their inspiration. In the writings of Spinoza, Lucretius, and other great philosophers, Stewart recovers the true meanings of “Nature’s God,” “the pursuit of happiness,” and the radical political theory with which the American experiment in self-government began.
On The Nature Of Gods
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Author : juanantoñio
language : en
Publisher: Abbott Press
Release Date : 2014-03-27
On The Nature Of Gods written by juanantoñio and has been published by Abbott Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with Poetry categories.
On the Nature of Gods presents two epic poems written by author juanantoio that explore love, loss, greed, and their transformative properties. The first poem, Fallen Woman, tells the tale of an underworld god, Crystal Man, and his creationa god-like woman and companion called Evening Star. Becoming her own person, she escapes, and he rampages through all time trying to find her. Both Crystal Man and Evening Star, along with the history of the world, are transformed by this epic struggle as they try to consummate their love. The second epic poem, Flaco: The Demi-God and the Nature of the Gods, focuses on a demi-god, who through the love of greed and power, tries to control and devour his worldonly to find that he has lost his way, rejected by an awakened Amanecer. juanantoio completes On the Nature of Gods with two short poems about life in Washington Heights, his home.
Cicero S Treatise On The Nature Of The Gods
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03
Cicero S Treatise On The Nature Of The Gods written by and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.
Living With The Gods
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Author : Neil MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Living With The Gods written by Neil MacGregor and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with History categories.
In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation—the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society. Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the nature of individual societies around the world seemed to be on the wane. Now, far from being marginalized, the relationship between faith and society has moved to the center of politics and global conversation. Neil MacGregor's new book traces the ways in which different societies have understood and articulated their places in the cosmic scheme. It examines mankind's beliefs not from the perspective of institutional religions but according to how shared narratives have shaped societies—and what happens when different narratives run up against each other. As he did in A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation, MacGregor brilliantly combines objects, places, and ideas to examine and, ultimately, illuminate these pressing contemporary concerns.