https://doi.org/10.21697/cl.2020.29.2.5
The article took up the issue of the Ciceronian understanding of the category
humanitas understood as an example of spiritual exercise. The historical context of
Cicero’s inspiration was discussed first. In the following part of the paper, the notion
of humanitas was subjected to a semantic analysis, which demonstrates several
concepts used by Cycero to describe this phenomenon in his writings. Then, the
discussed issue was interpreted in the key of the theory proposed by Pierre Hadot
and Juliusz Domański, according to which the ancient philosophy was a kind of
spiritual exercise (exercice spirituel). Based on the analysis of selected passages
from Cicero’s work De officiis, an attempt was made to demonstrate the relevance
of Hadot’s theory to Cicero’s concept.
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