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Subject Area: Political Theory
Subject Area: Law
Topic: Natural Law and Natural Rights

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatise on the Laws [51 BC]

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The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Comprising his Treatise on the Commonwealth; and his Treatise on the Laws. Translated from the original, with Dissertations and Notes in Two Volumes. By Francis Barham, Esq. (London: Edmund Spettigue, 1841-42). Vol. 2.

Part of: The Political Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 2 vols.


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About this title:

The Treatise on the laws is Cicero’s imitation of Plato’s dialogue The Laws where he develops a Stoic theory of natural law as right reason. This book became very influential during the middle ages.

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