Cicero and the People's Will

This book tells an overlooked story in the history of the will, a contested idea in both politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will as it would become in Western thought and who invents the idea of ''the will of the people''. In a single word – voluntas – he brings Roman law in contact with Greek ideas, chief among them Plato...