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" The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome / "
Claudia Moatti ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Malcolm Schofield
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BL
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631428
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dltt
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| Uniform Title
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Raison de Rome.English
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Moatti, Claude
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The birth of critical thinking in Republican Rome /\ Claudia Moatti ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Malcolm Schofield
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xxi, 386 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780521895781 (hardback)
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: 0521895782 (hardback)
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Translation of La raison de Rome: naissance de l'esprit critique à la fin de la République (IIe-Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ) published by Seuil in 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-374) and index
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| Contents
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Foreword / by Malcolm Schofield -- Preface -- Introduction to the English edition: Roman culture in movement -- 1. Crises and questionings -- 2. Opening up the world: the birth of curiosity -- 3. From disarray to erudition -- 4. The experience of thought -- 5. A discourse on the method, or the spirit of forms -- 6. The construction of Roman universality -- 7. Conclusion: the territories of reason
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"In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural dynamism and creativity when Roman intellectuals, most notably Cicero and Varro, began to explore all areas of life and knowledge and to apply critical thinking to the reassessment of tradition and the development of a systematic new understanding of the Roman past and present. This movement, linked to the development of writing, challenged old forms of authority and adhesion, belief and behaviour, without destroying tradition; and for this reason this rational trend can be described not as a cultural but as an epistemological revolution whose greatest achievement, Professor Moatti argues, was the development of the system of Roman law"--
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Rome, Intellectual life
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Rome, History, Republic, 265-30 B.C
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DG241.2.M6313 2015
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DG241.2.M6313 2015
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Lloyd, Janet
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Schofeld, Malcolm
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