Open AccessNaturaleza y relación de las nociones ciceronianas de <i>sapiens</i> y <i>princeps</i>
Author(s) -
Joan Manuel del Pozo
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1992.v60.i2.472
Subject(s) - homo sapiens , humanities , philosophy , sociology , anthropology
The ciceronian sapiens, differently from the stoic one, accepts both opinion and doubt, and, in contrast to the epicurean one, implicates his wisdom in political tasks. This sapiens is the epistemological foundation of the princeps, who requires that sort of non-dogmatic and practical wisdom. The sapiens makes his way to politics as an exigency due to reason and the princeps approaches philosophy as an open and plural foundation