The Stoics on Property and Politics

Mitsis, Phillip

doi:10.1111/j.2041-6962.2005.tb01987.x

The Southern J of Philosophy

2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2005.tb01987.x

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The Stoics on Property and Politics

Phillip Mitsis

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“…Mitsis 2010: 233–8; likewise, Veillard 2015: 67–9 and Brouwer 2021: 113–14; cf. Annas 1989: 167–8; Long 1997: 24–5.…”

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Taxing Wealth in the Just City: Cicero and the Roman Census

Monson

2023

J. Rom. Stud.

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Cicero claims that states were created for the protection of property, so a statesman should try to avoid levying property taxes. A contrary principle holds that, as long as the state is common to all, those who benefit from it most should compensate those who benefit least to maintain distributive justice. With this frame of reference, the article asks two related questions. First, to what extent does Cicero differ from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Livy, and the Stoics, who describe compensation or common ownership as a principle of fiscal fairness? Second, how does Cicero's political theory reflect the misgivings of wealthy Romans about state power and redistribution in the absence of compensatory taxation from 167 to 43 b.c.e.? I argue that his interpretation of the Servian census entrenches the ‘pre-fiscal’ distribution of property in the Roman constitution, which compromises the impartiality of the state and weakens its ability to respond to fiscal crises.

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“…Mitsis 2010: 233–8; likewise, Veillard 2015: 67–9 and Brouwer 2021: 113–14; cf. Annas 1989: 167–8; Long 1997: 24–5.…”

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Taxing Wealth in the Just City: Cicero and the Roman Census

Monson

2023

J. Rom. Stud.

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“…9 In denying that Cicero, in particular, had any appreciation for innate human uniqueness, Gill (1988) would seem to support this view as well. Phillip Mitsis (2005) also rejects what he views as reading modern ideas about the self into Cicero and the ancients.…”

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Individuality and hierarchy in Cicero’s De Officiis

Hawley

2016

European Journal of Political Theory

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This essay explores a creative argument that Cicero offers to answer a fundamental question: how are we to judge among different ways of life? Is there a natural hierarchy of human types? In response to this problem, Cicero gives an account of a person’s possessing two natures. All of us participate in a general human nature, the characteristics of which provide us with certain universal duties and a natural moral hierarchy. But, we also each possess an individual nature, qualities that make us unique and which we have an obligation to cultivate. By employing different concepts of natura to refer either to common human nature or to particular individual nature, Cicero establishes a basis for a normative standard that manages to affirm the superiority of certain especially valuable types of life, such as the philosopher and the statesman. At the same time, he advances a coherent account of individuality that places high value on natural human diversity.

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Taxing Wealth in the Just City: Cicero and the Roman Census

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