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Tacitus and Some Roman Ideals (Classic Reprint)

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Tacitus and Some Roman Ideals (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tacitus and Some Roman Ideals So far I have spoken of Tacitus in his relation to certain current ideas, which gave little opportunity for original thought. Let us now turn for a moment to his treatment of matters of more immediate experience, and first of all his observation of human character. In this field he suffered from a drawback which I think has not been sufficiently emphasized: I mean his adherence to the Stoic philosophy as a practical scheme of life. Its great object, tranquility of mind in the midst of the evils of the world, which it sought to secure by making reason the supreme guide, put it ever on guard against the disturbing influ ences of passion and pleasure. Its tendency was to sup press or ignore the whole emotional part of human nature. Stoicism thus, as Renan has somewhere remarked, declared war on life except in the one domain of duty. Now as a protection of the individual against the assaults of evil, this method has proved its worth both in ancient and modern times, but as a preparation for observing and understanding the world it has the defect of narrowing the vision. If one feels bound to hold himself morally aloof from certain things as dangerous or wrong, he will have little intellectual interest in them, or little power of imagination to understand them; indeed, true compre hension of certain phases of experience is possible only to those who have actually participated in them. 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.
Release date NZ
May 6th, 2018
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
22
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x1
ISBN-13
9781334230868
Product ID
26424808

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