Cicero Political Philosophy

Malcolm Schofield, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St John's College

Malcolm Schofield has taught ancient philosophy in Cambridge for close on 50 years, and is a wide-ranging and highly productive scholar, of major international standing. He joined G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven as co-author of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge 1983 [second edition]). With Jonathan Barnes and M.F. Burnyeat he co-founded in 1978 a long-running series of Symposia Hellenistica, which have done much to foster work of high quality on a previously understudied area of Greek and Roman philosophy. He has also been active more broadly in UK Classics, most recently as Chair of the British School at Athens (2010-16).

1. Introduction: contexts
2. Liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty
3. Government
4. Cosmopolitanism, imperialism, and the idea of law
5. Republican virtues
6. Republican decision-making
7. Epilogue: philosophical debate and normative theory
Bibliography
Index of passages
General index