西塞罗《图斯库路姆论辩集》书名发微

On the Title of Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes

《图斯库路姆论辩集》包含的五场论辩是西塞罗给出的一连串哲学教育,以死亡教育开头而指向对幸福生活而言自足的德性。这一文教的接受者是各卷中以一位罗马青年为代表的现在和将来的罗马政治人,施行文教的地点图斯库路姆庄园则兼为西塞罗本人的哲学园、罗马政治家族聚集区和罗马传统的象征。《图斯库路姆论辩集》这一书名本身已然暗示,西塞罗以反驳性哲学论辩为文教来应对罗马的政制巨变。

The five debates in Cicero’s Tusculanae Disputationes was a series of philosophical education,which begins with the death education and is aimed at the virtue sufficient for a happy life.The recipients of this paideia are contemporary and future Roman politicians represented by a young interlocutor in each book.Cicero’s paideia through refutative philosophical debates in response to the constitutional upheavals in Rome is implied in the title of Tusculanae Disputationes per se.