Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

On fate = De Fato / Cicero. The Consolation of philosophy = Philosophiae Consolationis IV.5-7, V / edited, with an introduction, translations and commentaries by R.W. Sharples.

Warminster, England : Aris & Phillips, c1991.

Abstract: Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero's treatise On Fate, though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them. Study of the treatise has been hindered by the lack of a combined Latin text and English translation based on a clear understanding of the arguments; Dr Sharples' text is intended to meet this need. The last book of Boethius' Consolation is linked with Cicero's treatise by its theme, the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom.