01:790:371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gladiator, Plotinus, Callicles
10 Aug 2016
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Stoics cicero is close to them, intellectually. Imagine nature to be a rational whole; imagine citizens to participate in the universe in the natural world, which is rationally organized, because human beings are rational and uniquely rational. They participate uniquely in nature and are governed by natural law. We don"t look at the polis, we look beyond the polis. We have an intellectual assault on the polis. The characters in this dialogue are all major political figures in rome. Scipio = council of rome, very important general who leads the final assault on carthage. Cicero is presenting to us an action that is constructed by people who are major intellectuals and major political leaders. Move from the internal to the external . When the romans face a problem, inside their own heads, they very often look outside of themselves/outside of rome for a solution. What we see is a shift from polity to empire.
