The Estimates of Moral Values Expressed in Cicero's Letters

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Excerpt from The Estimates of Moral Values Expressed in Cicero's Letters: A Study of the Motives Professed or Approved This study has grown out of the author's coincident interest in Ciceros letters and in ancient ethic's. The question asked on approaching the correspondence has been simply: What does Cicero represent as being worth while? In view of what good or goods does he himself profess to act? On what does he base his appeals to others, and his approval or disapproval of others? An attempt has been made to present systematically the answers yielded by this examination of the letters, permitting the material itself, so far as possible, to suggest the categories and manner of treatment to be employed. The requirements of each case have determined the extent to which the treatment of the several topics should be chronological. The correspondence has been studied as a mirror of the Roman ethical consciousness, rather than as a source of evidence regarding the character or the consistency of Cicero. Still, no account has been taken of the letters addressed to Cicero. In general, the discussion has been limited to goods which are in the text presented as motives. This involves the deliberate exclusion of a considerable body of interesting incidental ethical judgments, which the author may make the subject of a supplementary paper. The question of the genuineness of the letters admitted to the editions of Müller and of Tyrrell has not been raised. References to passages cited, included within parentheses, have been placed in the body of the discussions, in the belief that they will there be of most service to the student of Cicero, while the general reader can readily pass by everything within the parentheses. Acknowledgment is due Professors George L.Hendrickson and Frank F.Abbott, of the University of Chicago, for suggestions and criticisms made during the progress of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.