Journal ArticleAmerican Political Thought · December 1, 2024
Scholarship has shown that John Rawls’s theological education at Princeton shaped his later theory of justice but has overlooked a similar impact on his account of toleration, which was also derived from the original position in ATheory of Justice. Drawing ...
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Book · June 3, 2024
Tolerance is usually regarded as a quintessential liberal value. This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars of religion as the solution to the problem of religious vio ...
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Book · December 16, 2021
The international, interdisciplinary team of scholars represented in this volume highlights the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Cicero's writings, and suggests pathways for future scholarship on Cicero's philosophy as ... ...
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Journal ArticleCahiers philosophiques · January 30, 2020
Le Songe de Scipion est l’occasion pour Cicéron de revenir sur cette notion généralement dévalorisée politiquement qu’est l’espoir, par le biais de la longue narration d’un rêve, dans lequel Scipion a eu la vision, non seulement de sa destinée futu ...
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Journal ArticlePolis (United Kingdom) · January 1, 2020
Tertullian first coined the phrase 'the freedom of religion'. This article considers what this entails. I argue that Tertullian's discussion of religious liberty derives its theoretical significance from his creative repurposing of the Roman idea of libert ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives in biology and medicine · January 2019
In his work on medical ethics, Lauris Kaldjian identifies conscience with integrity. However, there are competing notions of integrity that may guide the conscience. This paper addresses debates over conscientious refusals by considering Cicero's account o ...
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Journal ArticleHistory of European Ideas · August 18, 2018
This paper assesses to what extent the neo-Republican accounts of Quentin Skinner and Philip Pettit adequately capture the nature of political liberty at Rome by focusing on Cicero's analysis of the libera res publica. Cicero's analysis in De Republica sug ...
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Book · January 1, 2018
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What can the Romans teach us about politics? This thematic introduction to Roman political thought shows how the Roman world developed political ideas of lasting significance, from the consequential constitutional notions of the separation of powers, polit ...
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Journal ArticlePolis (United Kingdom) · May 5, 2015
Recent scholarship on Stoic political thought has sought to explain the relationship between Zeno's Republic and the concept of a natural law regulating a cosmic city of gods and human beings that is attributed to later Stoics. This paper provides a reasse ...
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Journal ArticleClassical Receptions Journal · January 1, 2014
Why and how did (and do) political thinkers with radically different political agendas invest in Cicero's conservative political philosophy? What is it about Cicero's political thought that inspires radicals and conservatives alike? This essay explores the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Early Christian Studies · January 1, 2011
A reader of Ambrose's De officiis who is well acquainted with Cicero's homonymous work will be immediately impressed by the similarities in organization and the structure of argument. However, he or she will also notice that the bishop's ethic contains an ...
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OtherGazette Tulliana · 2010
In this interview with Philippe Rousselot, the President of the Societe internationale des amis de Ciceron, I discuss my research on Cicero and Roman philosophy. Translated into French, Spanish, and Italian. ...
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