title: Ciceros Proömien als Beginn der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung in Rom? Beobachtungen zu den Vorreden der ,Gespräche in Tusculum‘
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metadata.value: Schwab, Andreas
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metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:25:39Z
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metadata.value: 2018-07-10T18:25:39Z
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metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Andreas Schwab. Ciceros Proömien als Beginn der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung in Rom? Beobachtungen zu den Vorreden der ,Gespräche in Tusculum‘. Philologia Classica 2018, 13(1), 69–81.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2018.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10386
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metadata.value: This paper focuses on Cicero’s prefaces to his philosophical Tusculan disputations and in particular
  on their function. I will argue that in these paratexts, Cicero not only comes to grips
  with the concept and value of philosophy, but also inaugurates the genre of the history of
  philosophy in Rome. To support this thesis, I will illuminate at first the four aspects and concepts
  of ‘philosophy’ which Cicero develops: (2.1) philosophy as studium sapientiae, (2.2) philosophy
  in the Latin language, (2.3) ‘perfect philosophy’: the method and models of Cicero,
  and (2.4) philosophy as ‘medicine for the soul’. In a second step, two narratives that Cicero
  provides will illustrate (3) the scope of philosophy and its history in the prefaces. Both narratives
  also present intercultural encounters: the first (3.1) between the early Greek philosopher
  Pythagoras and the Etruscan king Numa, the second (3.2) between the so-called ‘Athenian
  legation’ and the senate in Rome. Against this background, I will finally focus on the climax
  of Cicero’s fifth preface, in which he outlines, in a spectacular overview, a history of philosophy.
  This sketched history of philosophy covers (4.1) an early time of wisdom and some even
  earlier representatives from a mythical time, (4.2) then the ‘old philosophy’ opening up with
  Pythagoras, and finally (4.3) the ‘Socratic’ philosophy. Cicero’s own dialogues belong to the
  latter category, being its consummate realisation. Through his own Latin endeavour to write a
  history of philosophy in Rome, Cicero in fact works out his own biased history of philosophy,
  which finds its fulfilment in Cicero himself.
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metadata.value: de
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cicero
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tusculan Disputations
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metadata.value: History of Philosophy in Rome
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ciceros Proömien als Beginn der Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung in Rom? Beobachtungen zu den Vorreden der ,Gespräche in Tusculum‘
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metadata.value: Article
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