Excerpt from Introduction and Notes to the Fifth Book of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations If we were to specify narrowly the knowledge most indispensable to the student at the outset, it would be this: the ethical views of Aristotle, of the Old Academy, of the Stoics and of the Epicureans, of Carneades of the Middle Academy, of Antiochus of the New Academy, and of Cicero himself. See introduction; (and for Cicero), III. The eclectics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.