How to Find Happiness (Cicero)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

ISBN: 9780691263397

Binding: hardcover

Section: Languages

Marcus Tullius Cicero and his fellow Greek and Roman philosophers agreed that the secret to happiness—or what they called the “good life”—is pursuing the “greatest good.” The only problem is that they couldn’t agree on what the greatest good is. Cicero addressed this dilemma by composing a set of dialogues, "On the Greatest Good and Evil" (De finibus bonorum et malorum), in which he pitted advocates of different philosophical approaches to happiness against one another. In How to Find Happiness, Katharina Volk offers a vivid new translation of selections from Cicero’s work, complete with an introduction and the original Latin text on facing pages.