هورتنسيوس (شيشرون)

هورتنسيوس
المؤلفشيشرون
البلدالجمهورية الرومانية
اللغةاللاتينية الكلاسيكية
الصنفالفلسفة
تاريخ النشر
45 ق.م.
سبقهالمفارقات الرواقية
تلاهالأكاديمي

هورتنسيوس (باللاتينية: Hortensius، لاتينية: [hɔrˈtẽːsi.ʊs]) أو عن الفلسفة)، هو حوار مفقود كتبه شيشرون عام 45 ق.م. الحوار-الذي سُمي على اسم منافس شيشرون الودود وشريكه،[nb 1] المتحدث والسياسي كوينتوس هورتنسيوس هورتالوس—اتخذ شكلاً protreptic. في العمل، ناقش شيشرون وهورتنسيوس وكوينتوس لوتاتيوس كاتولوس ولوسيوس ليسينيوس لوكولوس الاستخدام الأمثل لوقت فراغ الفرد. وفي ختام العمل، يرى شيشرون أن السعي وراء الفلسفة هو المسعى الأكثر أهمية.

في حين أن الحوار كان شائعًا للغاية في العصور الكلاسيكية القديمة، إلا أن الحوار استمر حتى القرن السادس الميلادي قبل أن يُفقد. اليوم، هو موجود في الأجزاء المحفوظة لدى كاتب النثر مارتيانوس كاپلا، والنحويين موروس سرڤيوس أونوراتوس ونونيوس مارسيلوس، المؤلف المسيحي المبكر لاكتانتيوس، وأب الكنيسة أوگستين من هيپو (الذي ينسب الأخير الفضل صراحةً إلى هورتنسيوس في تشجيعه على دراسة مبادئ الفلسفة).


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التاريخ والتكوين

خلفية سيرة ذاتية

Bust of Cicero
شيشرون، مؤلف حوار هورتنسيوس المفقود.

Just before composing the Hortensius, Cicero experienced many hardships.[2][3] Politically, Gaius Julius Caesar became both dictator and consul in 46 BC, and was subverting elements of the Roman Senate, of which the decidedly republican Cicero was a fervent supporter.[3][4] Personally, Cicero divorced his wife Terentia in 46 BC,[5] and in 45 BC he married Publilia, a rich young girl in his ward, although the marriage quickly fell apart.[6] Then, in February 45 BC, Cicero's daughter, Tullia, whom he loved greatly, died after giving birth.[2][7][8][9]

Both his political and personal misfortunes shook him to his core, with the death of his daughter being most disturbing; in a letter to his friend Titus Pomponius Atticus, he wrote, "I have lost the one thing that bound me to life."[10] Cicero soon found that the only thing which enabled him to get on with life was reading and writing, and so he retreated to his villa at Astura, where he isolated himself and composed the Hortensius.[2][11] (Around this time, he also composed several other works relating to philosophy, including: the Academica, De finibus bonorum et malorum, the Tusculanae Disputationes, De Natura Deorum, and the now also lost Consolatio.)[2][12][13][14]

الأسلوب

Cicero's exhortation was the advice "not to study one particular sect but to love and seek and pursue and hold fast and strongly embrace wisdom itself, wherever found."

– Fragment of Hortensius found in Augustine of Hippo's Confessions[15]

According to the Constantinian writer Trebellius Pollio, Cicero wrote the Hortensius "in the model of [a] protrepticus" (Marcus Tullius in Hortensio, quem ad exemplum protreptici scripsit).[16][17] Some scholars, such as Ingram Bywater, have argued that this is proof that Cicero based his work on Aristotle's Protrepticus,[16] whereas others, like W. G. Rabinowitz, argue it simply meant that Cicero wrote in the general protreptic style.[18] Either way, scholars tend to classify the Hortensius as a protreptic dialogue (that is "hortatory literature that calls the audience to a new and different way of life") based on Greek models.[11][19][20]

Cicero seems to have heavily emphasized the ethical nature of philosophy in the Hortensius, seeing the field as a "pragmatic and utilitarian science ... deal[ing] with questions of life."[21] This approach suggests that Cicero was inspired by Stoic thought,[21] like the philosopher Aristo of Chios.[22] Other sources for the work include Aristotle and Plato, as well as the writings of the Epicurean and Peripatetic schools, and the Platonic Academy.[22]

المحتويات

According to Michael Foley, in the Hortensius, "Cicero attempts to persuade Quintus Hortensius Hortalus ... known for his defense of corrupted provincial governors, of the superiority of philosophy to sophistical rhetoric in facilitating genuine human happiness."[23] The work takes place at either the Tusculum or Cumaen villa of Lucius Licinius Lucullus, and is set sometime in the mid-to-early 60s BC[nb 2] during an unnamed feria (that is, an ancient Roman holiday).[11][24][25] At the start of the dialogue, Lucullus welcomes his brother-in-law Hortensius as well as his friends Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Cicero to his house, and they begin to talk with one another.[24][25]

This discussion quickly becomes one about otium (Latin for leisure), which Hortensius describes as "not those things which demand a great intellectual effort" (non quibus intendam rebus animum), but rather "those through which the mind can ease and rest (sed quibus relaxem ac remittam).[25] Catulus says that he likes to read literature during free time. Lucullus critiques this opinion, arguing that the study of history is the best use of otium. Hortensius then declares that oratory is the greatest of the arts. Catulus counters by reminding Hortensius of the boons philosophy grants.[25] Hortensius dismisses this idea, arguing that philosophy "explains one ambiguity by another."[26] Cicero then inserts himself into the discussion,[25][27] arguing "as earnestly as [he can] for the study of philosophy".[28]

علاقته بـ پروترپتيكوس أفلاطون

[Cicero] in the Hortensius: If one reads Aristotle, a great effort of mind is required to undo his complexities.

– Nonius Marcellus quoting Cicero[29]

Conventionally, it is held that in writing his Hortensius, Cicero made use of Aristotle's Protrepticus.[23][30] This work—which inspired its readers to appreciate a philosophical approach to life—was one of the most famous and influential books of philosophy in the ancient world (although it was later lost during the Middle Ages).[19][31]

The German philologist Jakob Bernays was the first scholar to suggest that the Protrepticus inspired Cicero.[32] He thus suggested that the Hortensius should be used as the foundation by which the Protrepticus could be reconstructed.[33] In 1869, the English classical scholar Ingram Bywater agreed that Cicero had adapted the outline of the Protrepticus for his dialogue.[16] In 1888, working off Bywater and the German philologist Hermann Usener, the classicist Hermann Alexander Diels found a fragment of Hortensius in the Soliloquies of Augustine that seemed to connect with a section in a fragment of the Protrepticus. This, he contended, was additional proof that Cicero depended upon Aristotle.[34]

This hypothesis is not without its detractors. In 1957, W. G. Rabinowitz argued that the Hortensius was not based strictly on the Protrepticus but was rather written in the general hortatory and protreptic style then "much in vogue", as the philosopher and historian Anton-Hermann Chroust puts it.[18][35] In 2015, James Henderson Collins wrote that "the relationship between Aristotle's Protrepticus and Cicero's Hortensius remains elusive".[36]

الذكرى

The book changed my feelings. It altered my prayers, Lord, to be towards yourself. It gave me different values and priorities.

– Augustine of Hippo on Hortensius[37]

The Hortensius was renowned and popular in early and late antiquity,[38] and it likely inspired a number of Roman thinkers, like the silver age authors Seneca the Younger and Tacitus, the early Christian writer Lactantius, and the early medieval philosopher Boethius.[39][40] At the onset of the Christian era, the Hortensius was also studied in schools.[41][42] It was in this way that, while studying rhetoric in Carthage, a young Augustine of Hippo read the Hortensius. The work moved him deeply,[37][43] and in both his Confessions and De beata vita he wrote that the book engendered in him an intense interest in philosophy and encouraged him to pursue wisdom.[37][44][45]

But while it was popular for a time, the Hortensius survived only until around the sixth century AD, after which it was lost.[46] Today, a little over 100[47][nb 3] fragments of the book survive, preserved in the works of Augustine, Martianus Capella, Lactantius, Nonius Marcellus, and Servius.[48][41] Of these writers, Nonius Marcellus preserves the most, although these snippets, according to the classicist and religious scholar John Hammond Taylor, are "extremely brief and very difficult to place in a context".[46][48] The 16 fragments preserved by Augustine, on the other hand, are "of greater length and [thus] considerable interest", per Taylor.[46][48]

البحث

The cover the 1908 Teubner edition of Cicero's complete works. This volume contained the first standard critical edition of the Hortensius fragments.

There have been several works of scholarship regarding Cicero's Hortensius. In 1890, the first standard critical edition of the fragments was the Teubner edition of Cicero (Pt. IV, Vol. III), edited by C. F. W. Mueller. In 1892, Otto Plasberg wrote a dissertation on the fragments. In it, Plasberg provides a hypothesized order to the fragments, and supplies a Latin introduction and commentary. In 1958, Michel Ruch produced a fifty-three page thesis covering the influences, the date of composition, and structure of the Hortensius, while also examining its later influences and ultimate disappearance. In addition, the work reorganizes the fragments and provides each one with a French translation and commentary.[11][49] In 1962, Alberto Grilli produced Hortensius, the current standard edition for citation.[40][50]


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الهوامش

  1. ^ Cicero's sentiments regarding Hortensius were made clear in his oratory Brutus, in which he declares, "I grieved to have lost in [Hortensius] not, as some may have thought, a rival jealous of my forensic reputation, but rather a friend, and a fellow worker in the same field of glorious endeavour ... each of us was helped by the other with exchange of suggestions, admonitions, and friendly offices."[1]
  2. ^ Taylor argues for the very specific date of 62 BC.[11] MacKendrick argues for a slightly wider range of 61–60 BC.[24] Mihai proposes the widest range: 65–60 BC.[25]
  3. ^ Laila Straume-Zimmermann (1976) writes that we have about 130,[48] whereas Albertus Grilli (1962) contends that only 115 survive. Michel Ruch (1958) is even more conservative when he argues that only 94 fragments can be identified with certainty.[47]

المصادر

  1. ^ Cicero, Brutus 2–3.
  2. ^ أ ب ت ث Gagarin (2010), p. 139.
  3. ^ أ ب Taylor (1963), p. 487.
  4. ^ Strauss (2016), pp. 18–20.
  5. ^ Treggiari (2007), p. 131.
  6. ^ Salisbury (2001), p. 345.
  7. ^ Haskell (1942), p. 95.
  8. ^ Eder & Strothmann (2006).
  9. ^ Taylor (1963), pp. 487–88.
  10. ^ Haskell (1942), p. 249.
  11. ^ أ ب ت ث ج Taylor (1963), p. 488.
  12. ^ Cicero & Yonge (1877), p. 7.
  13. ^ Gagarin (2010), p. 140.
  14. ^ Dacre Balson & Ferguson (2018).
  15. ^ Augustine, Confessions 3.4.8.
  16. ^ أ ب ت Rabinowitz (1957), p. 4.
  17. ^ Trebellius Pollio, Historia Augusta, "Gallieni duo", 20.1.
  18. ^ أ ب Rabinowitz (1957), p. 93.
  19. ^ أ ب Rabinowitz (1957), p. 26.
  20. ^ Stowers (1986), p. 92.
  21. ^ أ ب Rabinowitz (1957), p. 40.
  22. ^ أ ب MacKendrick (1989), p. 112.
  23. ^ أ ب Augustine & Foley (2007), p. 40, note 16.
  24. ^ أ ب ت MacKendrick (1989), p. 109.
  25. ^ أ ب ت ث ج ح Mihai (2014), pp. 452–53.
  26. ^ MacKendrick (1989), p. 110.
  27. ^ Taylor (1963), pp. 488–89.
  28. ^ Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.1.
  29. ^ Rabinowitz (1957), p. 23.
  30. ^ Hutchinson & Johnson (2017), p. vii.
  31. ^ Hutchinson, D. S.; Johnson, Monte Ransome. "Protrepticus". protrepticus.info. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  32. ^ Rabinowitz (1957), p. 3.
  33. ^ Chroust (2015), p. 88.
  34. ^ Rabinowitz (1957), p. 10.
  35. ^ Chroust (2015), p. 98.
  36. ^ Collins (2015), p. 244.
  37. ^ أ ب ت Augustine, Confessions 3.4.7.
  38. ^ Clayton (n.d.).
  39. ^ Taylor (1960), pp. 94–99.
  40. ^ أ ب Mihai (2014), p. 451.
  41. ^ أ ب MacKendrick (1989), pp. 112–13.
  42. ^ Taylor (1960), pp. 489–90.
  43. ^ Russell (1976), p. 59.
  44. ^ Augustine, De beata vita 1.4.
  45. ^ Taylor (1960), p. 491.
  46. ^ أ ب ت Taylor (1963), p. 489.
  47. ^ أ ب Muller (1990), p. 166.
  48. ^ أ ب ت ث Fitzgerald (1999), p. 437.
  49. ^ Cicero & Ruch (1958).
  50. ^ Cicero & Grilli (1962).


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