Marcus Tullius Cicero epub The Academics of Cicero (Classic Reprint)

This translation of Cicero sA cademics is intended to form an adjunct to a revised issue of my edition of theL atin text, with explanatory notes, now in the Press. The translation will ultimately appear together with the edition, in the same volume. This volume I originally intended to publish in time to be of use to the candidates for the ensuing Classical Tripos inC ambridge, who are required to prepare the A cademica as one of their set subjects. Circumstances having rendered this impossible I decided to issue some copies of the translation separately for their use. It also occurred to me that a trustworthy rendering of this important book might at the same time prove to have some interest and value for another class of students those whose special study is philosophy rather than Classics, and who, while wishing to learn something of the early history of their subject, have neither the leisure nor the particular acquirements necessary to enable them to read with profit the ancient philosophical writings in the original languages. I am aware that for such students the history of ancient thought has hitherto practically closed with the name of A ristotle. But it is, I think, beginning to be felt, in Germany at least, that the vast historical importance of the post-A ristotelian systems entitles them to more attention than they have hitherto received. In any case, whatever may be thought of the later Greek speculation as a whole, the controversy presented to us inC icero sA cademics is one which ought to possess an enduring interest for the R. C. A.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of