The three books of Cicero’s De officiis were written under the influence of the Stoic Panaetius, who explained what kinds of officia or «duties» must be fulfilled by ordinary (= non-wise) human beings. These consists in the respect of justice or honesty and the rational search for common utility, which provides useful goods to individuals. The paper will highlight that this perspective can be applied to work: for working is one of the duties of ordinary humans. Workers should be just or honest, provide useful things, never prefer personal gain over honesty. In order to defend this claim, the paper also takes into account Cicero’s program of the “leisure with dignity” (otium cum dignitate) that he proposes in the speech Pro Sestio and the conception of labor of the Tusculanae disputationes.
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Titolo del capitolo
Il lavoro utile e onesto secondo il De officiis di Cicerone
Autori
Enrico Piergiacomi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919