Lexis Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica

Journal | Lexis
Journal issue | Num. 39 (n.s.) – Giugno 2021 – Fasc. 1
Research Article | The Actor Analogy in Off. 1: A Platonic-Aristotelian Perspective for a Topic of Stoic Use

The Actor Analogy in Off. 1: A Platonic-Aristotelian Perspective for a Topic of Stoic Use

Abstract

There has been much discussion about the origin of the actor analogy in Off. 1.107-115. Some scholars have considered that we are facing a theory of personality and even a proposal that would point towards the definition of a moral subject in Cicero’s work. Without discussing the Stoic origin of the analogy, this work argues that Cicero would take in De officiis a Stoic topic transforming it into a Platonic-Aristotelian sense. Thus, the interpretation according to which the first book of Cicero’s last philosophical work would have a profound academic and peripatetic influence is defended.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Oct. 6, 2020 | Accepted: Dec. 8, 2020 | Published June 30, 2021 | Language: es

Keywords ModelsPersonaCiceroActorDuties


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