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Cicero and the Constitution
We the People
Cicero's Philosophy of Reason and the Passions
Benjamin Strahman: The roots of natural law philosophy were really in Cicero. Montesquieu and Locke relied on Cicero for the idea that we're born in a state of nature with certain rights and duties, he says. In Cicero there's a lot of indications that he's a skeptic so he was worried about us not having a solid conception of the good life or what we need to get there said Strahman.
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