The history of the discourses about passions in Cicero’s Tusculan disputation

Authors

  • André Menezes Rocha Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2010.89419

Keywords:

Passions, Reason, Rethoric, Logic, Discourse, Antiquity.

Abstract

How passion shows itself in Plato’s dialectics? How in the texts of rhetoric? How in the Stoic’s logic? Cicero makes a skeptical examination of many forms of speeches on passions and virtues, in the Tusculan Disputation, searching for grounds for moral philosophy. This examination, which seems to be a history of all ancient texts on the matter, puts in confrontation the great schools of the ancient materialism: Hippocratic medicine, Stoicism, Cyreaism and Epicureanism. The lecture of Cicero’s Tusculan can let us apprehend the different modes of discourse on passions and actions that were developed in Antiquity.

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Author Biography

  • André Menezes Rocha, Universidade de São Paulo
    Doutor em Filosofia pelo Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de São Paulo

Published

2010-12-15

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Section

Artigos

How to Cite

Rocha, A. M. (2010). The history of the discourses about passions in Cicero’s Tusculan disputation. Cadernos Espinosanos, 24, 93-114. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2010.89419