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done-nov29...edited-dec7

Cicero, was truly a man of the state. His writings also show us he was equally a man of
  philosophical temperament and affluence. Yet at times these two forces within Cicero clash
  and contradict with the early stoic teachings. Cicero gradually adopted the stoic
  lifestyle but not altogether entirely, and this is somewhat due to the fact of what it was
  like to be a roman of the time. The morals of everyday Rome conflicted with some of the
  stoic ideals that were set by early stoicism. Thus, Cicero changed the face of stoicism by
  romanizing it; redefining stoicism into the middle phase.
   Of Cicero it can be said he possessed a bias towards roman life and doctrine. For Cicero
   every answer lay within Rome itself, from the ideal governing body to the  place of
   divination. Cicero does not offer any alternate answers to roman society, which robs him
   of being truly a unique and bold political philosopher. This is not to say however some
   of his doctrines are untrue, just that he is somewhat blinded by his roman beliefs and
   assumptions.
    The assumptions of Cicero can be noticed when one inspects his view of the ideal
    governing body, which he expresses through Scipio (in the commonwealth). Although Cicero
    presents very convincing arguments for a Composite government, clearly his view is
    possibly only due towards his belief in the roman structure of government.1
     Cicero was limited to roman borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated
     by  his disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. Cicero was
     unable to think on the level of Aristotle's logic. He quite simply used roman history
     as a mapping of the paths of the decay of states.
In contrast, Aristotle understood the underlying forces and influences that transpired when
a state degraded. Cicero quite frankly could not understand the forces which Aristotle so
eloquently denoted. For Cicero, history offered the only possible paths of outcomes; the
forces and behaviors played little part on the resulting state.2
     A further point of philosophical belief which Cicero contradicted the stoic lifestyle,
     is religion. Roman tradition conflicted greatly with stoic doctrine, and the two
     philosophies could never truly harmonize with one another. This point brought the
     distinction between the Greek learned world of intellect, and the traditional religious
     roman patronage. This observation ...

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