Cover art for On Living and Dying Well
Published
Penguin Classics, September 2012
ISBN
9780140455564
Format
Softcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.4cm

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A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek

In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will, and the justification of any creative endeavour.

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