{"product_id":"2026200013487-secondhand-on-the-good-life","title":"On The Good Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to live well? In On the Good Life, the great Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero confronts this timeless question with characteristic eloquence and intellectual rigour, drawing together some of his most celebrated ethical writings — including selections from De Finibus, Tusculan Disputations, and De Officiis — into a profound meditation on virtue, duty, friendship, and the nature of true happiness. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the late Roman Republic, these dialogues and essays present a civilization grappling with the same moral dilemmas that define every human age, rendered with a clarity and rhetorical brilliance that made Cicero the most persuasive voice of antiquity.\n\nTranslated with scholarly precision and accompanied by an illuminating introduction, this Penguin Classics edition makes Cicero's Stoic and Academic philosophical arguments fully accessible to the modern reader. Cicero argues — with both passion and pragmatic wisdom — that the good life is inseparable from the life of virtue, a conviction that profoundly shaped Western thought from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment. His prose, at once conversational and majestic, carries an urgency that refuses to age; by the time the final page is turned, the reader is left with a haunting question: by Cicero's demanding standard, how well are any of us truly living?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203380158683,"sku":"2026200013487-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e680aebb-09e7-4bb5-afe6-a3acf869bc28.png?v=1788148086","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013487-secondhand-on-the-good-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}