Socratic Cosmopolitanism

Cicero's Critique and Transformation of the Stoic Ideal

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ID6236604
AuthorsThomas L Pangle (University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume31
Issue2
Pages235-262
Publication date1998-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423900019788
OpenAlexW1983608673
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited13

The post-Cold War era has provoked a revival of various implicit as well as explicit returns to Stoic cosmopolitan theory as a possible source of a normative conceptual framework for international relations and global community. This article confronts this revival of interest in Stoicism with an analysis of Cicero's constructive critique of original Stoic conceptions of the world community. Particular attention is paid to the arguments by which Cicero identifies major flaws in the Stoic outlook and establishes the validity of his alternative notion of the “law of nations.” It is argued that Cicero's transformation of Stoicism issues in a more modest but more solid, as well as more civic-spirited, cosmopolitan theory. At the same time, the implications of Cicero's arguments for our understanding of justice altogether are clarified

Art · Cicero · Constructive · Cosmopolitanism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Invective · Literature · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Socratic method · Stoicism · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification

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