Pr. Lex Paulson’s book ‘’Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic’’ published with Cambridge University Press, was launched.
The book is an adventure story of ideas, centered on the creative genius of Rome’s greatest orator and most underappreciated thinker, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
It tells an overlooked story in the history of ideas, a drama of cut-throat politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will in Western thought, from criminal will to moral willpower and «the will of the people».
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