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Analyse und Synthese. Ein Ciceronisches Denkmuster in den Tusculanenproömien

Bleistein, Marco (2014) Analyse und Synthese. Ein Ciceronisches Denkmuster in den Tusculanenproömien. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 54 (4). pp. 393-406. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

Often, Cicero’s prooemia and especially the prooemia of his work Tusculanae disputationes have been subject to criticism, according to which they do not have any relation to the actual treatise, reveal inconsistencies and were written inconsiderately and rapidly. In this paper, I would like to correct this image and introduce a new approach which is inspired by structuralism. Reading the text closely, one notices a connection of few thematic elements that can be arranged in pairs of opposites. The main focus will be on three of these oppositions: Romans-Greeks (1), Present-Past (2), Elite-Masses (3). It can be shown that the opposition of the terms just works as a structural starting point. In the course of the text, the separation is resolved. One can see a Ciceronian pattern of thinking, proceeding from a state I would like to call ‘analysis’ to a state hereafter called ‘synthesis’. Reading the text this way, one can gain new insight into the status of the prooemia of the Tusculanae disputationes. In their entirety, they form a coherent cultural and philosophical project. Moreover, the terms ‘analysis’ and ‘synthesis’ arise as conceptual instruments for describing an important Ciceronian thought pattern.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia
Depositing User: xKatalin xBarta
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2016 15:29
Last Modified: 05 Dec 2016 15:29
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/42898

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