Introduction: Cicero's Significance -- Ciceronian Society -- The Changing Social Structure -- Some Characteristics of Roman Government -- The Late Republican Time of Troubles -- Cicero's Life and Works -- Biographical Milestones and Intellectual Influences -- Philosophy as Solace and Guide -- Principal Social and Political Writings -- Law, Justice, and Human Nature -- Natural Law and Natural Justice -- Conception of Man -- Moral Equality and Social Inequality -- The Socially Superior and Inferior -- Vulgar and Gentlemanly Callings -- The Model Gentleman -- Private Property and Its Accumulation -- The Finances and Properties of Cicero -- An Enlightened Economic Individualism -- Town versus Country -- The Idea of the State -- Dedication to the State and Politics -- Definition of the State -- Purpose of the State -- State, Government, and Society -- Types of State -- The Three Simple Constitutions -- Forms of Tyranny -- Essentials of the Mixed Constitution -- The Doctrine prior to Cicero -- The Roman Mixture -- Institutions of the Ideal Mixture -- The Art of Politics -- Nature of Politics -- Violence as a Political Instrument -- Major Ends of Statecraft -- Rudiments of Economic Policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index
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