Tradition
Ancient Roman philosophy
Overview
philosophical thought in ancient Rome
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At huic aliud maius adiungitur. Nam imperante florenteque nequitia uirtus non solum praemiis caret, uerum etiam sceleratorum pedibus subiecta calcatur et in locum facinorum supplicia luit. Quae fieri in regno scientis omnia, potentis omnia sed bona tantummodo uolentis dei nemo satis potest nec admirari nec conqueri." Tum illa: "Et esset," inquit, "infiniti stuporis omnibusque horribilius monstris, si, uti tu…
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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Gracchus qui otium perturbaret, sic Arcesilas qui constitutam philosophiam everteret et in eorum auctoritate delitisceret, qui negavissent quicquam sciri aut percipi posse? quorum e numero tollendus est et Plato et Socrates: alter, quia reliquit perfectissimam disciplinam, Peripateticos et Academicos, nominibus differentis, re congruentis, a quibus Stoici ipsi verbis magis quam sententiis dissenserunt. Socrates…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Academica
Close in meaning to Ancient Roman philosophy; the term itself is not named.
Reproving on one occasion the sumptuous habits of the Romans, he said: "It is hard to preserve a city, where a fish is sold for more than an ox." He had a saying, also, that the Roman people were like sheep; for they, when single, do not obey, but when altogether in a flock, they follow their leaders: "So you," said he, "when you have got together in a body let yourselves be guided by those whom singly you would…
Plutarch, The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
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Philosophers who discussed Ancient Roman philosophy
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- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Alexandria
- Anima mundi
- Cato the Younger
- Clement of Alexandria
- Commentaries on Aristotle
- Damascius
- Domitian
- Epictetus
- Hadrian
- Iamblichus
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Julian (emperor)
- Lucretius
- Marcus Aurelius
- Meditation
- Meditations
- Nero
- Philo
- Philodemus
- Rome
- Vespasian
- Diogenes of Babylon
- Gaius Musonius Rufus