Treatise on the Laws

Treatise on the Laws

by Cicero
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Publication Date: 14/03/2018

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As a companion work to the Republic, Cicero wrote the 'Treatise on the Laws', De Legibus, which was almost certainly not published in Cicero's lifetime, and possibly had not received the last touches when he died. There are three books extant, with gaps in them; but a fifth book is quoted. While the Republic describes the ideal state, the Laws discusses its statutes, so that the later work sometimes repeats the thought of the former. Thus the first book of the Laws lays as a foundation for the whole treatment of laws the thesis that all law is derived from God, through our inborn sense of justice; and this is also the subject of the third book of the Republic. The second and third books of the Laws are concerned with religion and with magistracies; two topics that in some form or other were touched upon in the latter half of the 'De Republica.'

ISBN:
9783849651695
9783849651695
Category:
Legal history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-03-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Jazzybee Verlag

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