Open AccessThe Actor Analogy inOff.1: A Platonic-Aristotelian Perspective for a Topic of Stoic Use
Author(s) -
Íker Martínez Fernández
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lexis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2724-1564
pISSN - 2210-8823
DOI - 10.30687/lexis/2724-1564/2021/01/005
Subject(s) - cicero , analogy , epistemology , interpretation (philosophy) , perspective (graphical) , philosophy , subject (documents) , literature , linguistics , computer science , art , artificial intelligence , library science
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.