Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism

Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 2 (3):275–285 (2015)
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The skeptical challenge to politics is that if knowledge is in short supply and it is a condition for the proper use of political power, then there is very little just politics. Cicero’s Republicanism is posed as a program for political legitimacy wherein both citizens and their states are far from ideal. The result is a form of what is termed negative conservatism, which shows political gridlock in a more positive light.

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