THE BEST GOVERNMENT BASED ON CICERO’S DE RE PUBLICA AND DE LEGIBUS

University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

Author: Huong Thi Hill; [2023-10-16]

Keywords: natural law; human nature; government; reason;

Abstract: In Cicero’s De re publica and De legibus, Cicero established that nature would determine an ideal state but given human nature, this ideal cannot be achieved. I will discuss what kind of political organization Cicero proposes as best suited to human nature, what ways it departs from the ideal and what it preserves.

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