The Writings Of Cicero

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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 ...

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a great indifference
towards life, in the regard that the natural plan cannot be changed. This
attitude made stoic's recluse from fame, and opposed to seeking it.

One fundamental belief stoics held was in the universal community of
mankind. They held that a political community is nothing more than its
laws' borders, since the natural laws are universal imposed; a universal
political community existed in which all men share membership. This
interpretation is generally regarded as the early stoic stage, which had
yet to experience little roman influence. Upon roman adoption, stoicism
went through a romanizing period; an altering of the philosophy to better
integrate into roman ...

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