Socio-Political Naturalism and the History of Republican Thought
Cicero contra Aristotle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5015113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cary J Nederman (0000-0001-8175-7141, Texas A&M University, corresponding author), Cary Nederman (Texas A&M University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2020.1800915 |
| OpenAlex | W3047262044 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 52 |
Recent scholarship on republicanism often looks back to Aristotle as the Greco-Roman epitome of the history of republican theory. This article contends that Aristotle offers a poor model in comparison with the premiere political philosopher of the Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero. The argument concentrates on the implications of the respective conceptions of Aristotle and Cicero of the origins of social and political association rooted in human nature. Cicero’s theory of the natural foundations of society has generally been ignored or trivialized by scholars who presume it to be merely a weak imitation of Aristotle’s. This article demonstrates that the Ciceronian account of the naturalistic grounding of human social engagement differs from Aristotelian naturalism in a way that brings into question major approaches to the history of republicanism and also has implications for contemporary republican theory
Cicero · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Naturalism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Cicero
Political Thinkers
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future
Cicero’s Practical Philosophy
Cicero's Law
Cicero
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
Civic Republicanism
Aristotelian political theory in the Hellenistic period
Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge
Machiavelli and Republicanism
Philosophia Togata II
Renaissance Civic Humanism
Cicero’s Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
Republicanism
Herrschaft und Recht bei Aristoteles
The union of wisdom and eloquence before the Renaissance
Machiavelli and Aristotle
De Re Publica 1.39 in Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought
Citizens to Lords
Republics Ancient and Modern
Roman Political Thought
A Written Republic
Brill's Companion to Cicero
Nature, Sin and the Origins of Society
Cicero's ideal statesman in theory and practice
The Puzzle of the Political Animal
Machiavelli's Momentary “Machiavellian Moment
Ecce Romani
Cicero, Roman Republicanism and the Contested Meaning of Libertas
The "Baron Thesis" after Forty Years and Some Recent Studies of Leonardo Bruni
Between Polis and Empire
The Fall of Natural Man
The Machiavellian Moment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |