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How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers

Autor Marco Tulio Cicerón / Philip Freeman

Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
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A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential Stoic writings on the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods—from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countl...

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  • Publisher PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • ISBN13 9780691183657
  • ISBN10 0691183651
  • Type BOOK
  • Pages 160
  • Collection Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers #
  • Published 2019
  • Language English
  • Bookbinding Hard cover

How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers

Autor Marco Tulio Cicerón / Philip Freeman

Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential Stoic writings on the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods—from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countl...

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A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential Stoic writings on the divine

Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods—from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless local divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief system that is finding new adherents even today: Stoicism. How did the Stoics think about religion? In How to Think about God, Philip Freeman presents vivid new translations of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio. In these brief works, Cicero offers a Stoic view of belief, divinity, and human immortality, giving eloquent expression to the religious ideas of one of the most popular schools of Roman and Greek philosophy.

On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio are Cicero's best-known and most important writings on religion, and they have profoundly shaped Christian and non-Christian thought for more than two thousand years, influencing such luminaries as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and Thomas Jefferson. These works reveal many of the religious aspects of Stoicism, including an understanding of the universe as a materialistic yet continuous and living whole in which both the gods and a supreme God are essential elements.

Featuring an introduction, suggestions for further reading, and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Think about God is a compelling guide to the Stoic view of the divine.

Philip Freeman is the author of more than twenty books on the ancient world, including the Cicero translations How to Be a Friend, How to Grow Old, and How to Run a Country (all Princeton). He holds the Fletcher Jones Chair as a Professor of Humanities at Pepperdine University and lives in Malibu, California.

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