Project Gutenberg 2005-02-09 Public domain in the USA. 1814 Cicero, Marcus Tullius -106 -43 Yonge, Charles Duke 1812 1891 Yonge, C. D. (Charles Duke) Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth Reading ease score: 57.3 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. Produced by Ted Garvin, Hagen von Eitzen and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Cicero's Tusculan Disputations" by Marcus Tullius Cicero is a philosophical treatise written in the late Roman Republic period. This work presents a series of five dialogues in which Cicero addresses various philosophical questions concerning the nature of death, the essence of happiness, and the role of virtue in life. The primary focus is to provide a philosophical framework to help individuals confront and understand their anxieties surrounding death and suffering. The opening of the text introduces the context of its creation, highlighting Cicero's personal grief due to the death of his daughter, Tullia, which prompted him to seek solace in philosophical discussions. In the first book, Cicero, engaging in a dialogue with friends, begins to tackle the fear of death. He argues that death should not be perceived as an evil and explores their underlying beliefs about life, existence, and morality. Cicero employs rhetorical questioning to challenge and refine his arguments, inviting his participants to reconsider their assumptions about mortality and the nature of human suffering. This engaging discursive style sets the stage for further exploration of fundamental philosophical concepts throughout the subsequent dialogues. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Theology -- Early works to 1800 Political science -- Early works to 1800 State, The -- Early works to 1800 Happiness -- Early works to 1800 Gods, Roman -- Early works to 1800 Rome -- Politics and government -- 265-30 B.C. PA Text Classical Antiquity Browsing: History - Ancient Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Politics 1187410 1187411 2024-10-06T15:33:19.992156 2023-09-07T05:36:59.614089 text/html text/html 1173534 2020-12-19T10:45:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 417078 2020-12-19T10:45:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 508723 2024-10-06T15:33:36.830046 application/epub+zip 530587 2024-10-06T15:33:24.408167 application/epub+zip 516410 2024-10-06T15:33:22.662112 application/epub+zip 954644 2024-10-06T15:33:45.962022 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 917980 2024-10-06T15:33:35.598070 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 893369 2022-09-07T19:21:32.557508 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1069489 1069408 2024-10-06T15:33:17.459191 2023-09-07T05:36:57.427052 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1068877 2020-12-19T10:45:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 395521 2020-12-19T10:45:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1069212 2020-12-19T10:45:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 395235 2020-12-19T10:45:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23914 2024-10-06T15:33:46.115995 application/rdf+xml 16509 2024-10-06T15:33:23.303265 image/jpeg 3817 2024-10-06T15:33:22.983112 image/jpeg 496257 2024-10-06T15:33:20.096133 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia