Cicero and Modern Law

Cicero and Modern Law
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 663
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ISBN-10 : 9781351571906
ISBN-13 : 1351571907
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Cicero and Modern Law by : Richard O. Brooks

Cicero and Modern Law contains the best modern writings on Cicero's major law related works, such as the Republic, On Law, On Oratory, along with a comprehensive bibliography of writings on Cicero's legal works. These works are organized to reveal the influence of Cicero's writings upon the history of legal thought, including St. Thomas, the Renaissance, Montesquieu and the U.S. Founding Fathers. Finally, the articles include discussions of Cicero's influence upon central themes in modern lega thought, including legal skepticism, republicanism, mixed government, private property, natural law, conservatism and rhetoric. The editor offers an extensive introduction, placing these articles in the context of an overall view of Cicero's contribution to modern legal thinking.

Defence Speeches

Defence Speeches
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780199537907
ISBN-13 : 0199537909
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Defence Speeches by : Cicero,

This book presents five of Cicero's courtroom defences, including the defence of Roscius, falsely accused of murdering his father; of the consul-elect Murena, accused of electoral bribery; and of Milo, for murdering Cicero's enemy Clodius.

Renaissance Civic Humanism

Renaissance Civic Humanism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0521548071
ISBN-13 : 9780521548076
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Renaissance Civic Humanism by : James Hankins

The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought.

Treatise on the Commonwealth

Treatise on the Commonwealth
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Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : 9783849676254
ISBN-13 : 3849676250
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Treatise on the Commonwealth by : Cicero

Cicero’s comprehensive treatise on the Commonwealth known as De Republica is a work whose direct and practical purpose was to arouse Roman citizens to the dangers which then threatened destruction to the liberties of their country. In appealing to his countrymen "to rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things," the inspired patriot did not hesitate to promise that all patriotic and philanthropic statesmen should not only be rewarded on earth by the approval of their own consciences and the applause of all good citizens, but by immortal glory in a realm beyond the grave.

How to Win an Argument

How to Win an Argument
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781400883356
ISBN-13 : 1400883350
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis How to Win an Argument by : Marcus Tullius Cicero

Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest orator All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct—and often floundering or failing as a result—we’d win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, rhetoric. How to Win an Argument gathers the rhetorical wisdom of Cicero, ancient Rome’s greatest orator, from across his works and combines it with passages from his legal and political speeches to show his powerful techniques in action. The result is an enlightening and entertaining practical introduction to the secrets of persuasive speaking and writing—including strategies that are just as effective in today’s offices, schools, courts, and political debates as they were in the Roman forum. How to Win an Argument addresses proof based on rational argumentation, character, and emotion; the parts of a speech; the plain, middle, and grand styles; how to persuade no matter what audience or circumstances you face; and more. Cicero’s words are presented in lively translations, with illuminating introductions; the book also features a brief biography of Cicero, a glossary, suggestions for further reading, and an appendix of the original Latin texts. Astonishingly relevant, this unique anthology of Cicero’s rhetorical and oratorical wisdom will be enjoyed by anyone who ever needs to win arguments and influence people—in other words, all of us.

Cicero and Roman Education

Cicero and Roman Education
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9781107068582
ISBN-13 : 1107068584
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Cicero and Roman Education by : Giuseppe La Bua

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero's speeches in the Roman educational system.

With what Persuasion

With what Persuasion
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 1433103125
ISBN-13 : 9781433103124
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis With what Persuasion by : Scott Forrest Crider

Although there are a number of book-length studies of rhetoric in Shakespeare's plays, With What Persuasion discerns a distinctly Shakespearean ethics of the art of rhetoric in them. In this interdisciplinary book, Scott F. Crider draws upon the Aristotelian traditions of poetics, rhetoric, and ethics to show how Shakespeare addresses fundamental ethical questions that arise during the public and private rhetorical situations Shakespeare represents in his plays. Informed by the Greek, Roman, and English poetic and rhetorical traditions, With What Persuasion offers close readings of a selection of plays - Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Henry the 5th, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, and The Winter's Tale - to answer universal questions about human speech and association, answers that refute a number of contemporary literary and rhetorical theory's assumptions about language and power. Crider argues that this Shakespearean ethics could assist us in our own historical moment as we in the liberal, multicultural West try to refound, without coercion, ethical principles to bind us to one another.