Philosophical dialogue · 1853
On the Ends of Good and Evil (De Finibus)
Five dialogues on the supreme good: the Epicurean, Stoic and Peripatetic accounts examined
Translated by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Written in 45 BC, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum sets the leading Hellenistic schools against one another on the question of what the highest good is. Torquatus defends Epicurus and Cicero replies (Books I and II); Cato expounds the Stoic view (III) and Cicero answers it (IV); Piso sets out the Peripatetic and Old Academic position (V). C. D. Yonge's literal translation (Bohn, 1853), with Cicero's chapter numbers kept at the head of paragraphs.
Contents · 5 parts