February 9, 2018
Franck Colotte, « Le De Officiis et la pédagogie cicéronienne », Interférences, ID : 10.4000/interferences.6005
In a troubled period of his life and of Roman political life, Cicero, seeking in part to compensate for his political failure, proposes in the De Officiis key principles that underlie his ethics and his humanism, stressing in particular that man cannot reach decorum if he doesn’t respect in the conduct of his life the peculiarity of his nature. In a logic of pedagogical transmission Cicero adapts thus to the Roman world and to the realities of the city concepts coming from the Greek philosophy, but also proposes a discourse on the relations between the man and the city that he wants destined to all and universally valid.