Tabla de Contenidos: “…De Finibus I 113 Chapter Four: With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space 128 The Philosophizing Orator: A Stoic or an Academic? Cato versus Cicero in the Paradoxa Stoicorum 131 Always Philosophizing: Cicero as the Linchpin in De Natura Deorum I 137 From Oratory to Philosophy: The Logic of Tusculan Disputations I 140 Chapter Five: Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management 150 Making Friends with Strangers: Topica 156 Drawing Strength from Tradition: De Senectute 173 Chapter Six: Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction 187 Looking Back: De Divinatione II 188 From the Ides to the De Officiis 194 From Quintus the Elder to Marcus the Younger: The Pattern of Dedications 204 The Final Encounter: De Officiis 212 Bibliography 225 Index Locorum 243 General Index 249…”

“…"Critical philosophical investigation of the question: What is the meaning of life? …”
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