by Marco Tulio Cicerón · ESPASA LIBROS, S.L.U. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423903399
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«Los oficios» is the philosophical essay by Marcus Tullius Cicero, published by Espasa Libros in paperback (162 pages, in Spanish).
«Los oficios», written in 44 BC, sets out the moral duties of the citizen and the ruler. It reflects on virtue and offers guidelines for acting with integrity in public and private life. Its influence reached Christian humanism and the Enlightenment; it remains a classic of ethics and politics.
Originally titled De Officiis, it belongs to the Austral Collection (number 339) and corresponds to the fifth edition.
Readers of classical philosophy, Roman history and political theory will find in this treatise a reference work of Western thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.
