La analogía del actor en Off. 1: una perspectiva platónico-aristotélica para un tópico de uso estoico
There has been much discussion about the origin of the actor analogy in Off. 1.107-115. Some scholars have considered that we are facing a theory of personality and even a proposal that would point towards the definition of a moral subject in Cicero’s work. Without discussing the Stoic origin of...
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Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Lexis |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.30687/Lexis/2724-1564/2021/01/005 |
| Summary: | There has been much discussion about the origin of the actor analogy in Off. 1.107-115. Some scholars have considered that we are facing a theory of personality and even a proposal that would point towards the definition of a moral subject in Cicero’s work. Without discussing the Stoic origin of the analogy, this work argues that Cicero would take in De officiis a Stoic topic transforming it into a Platonic-Aristotelian sense. Thus, the interpretation according to which the first book of Cicero’s last philosophical work would have a profound academic and peripatetic influence is defended.
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| ISSN: | 2724-1564 |