5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Cato the Younger — Roman politician and Stoic who was Caesar's most implacable opponent, and who chose suicide in Utica rather than accept Caesar's pardon — becoming the supreme Roman exemplar of political integrity, philosophical consistency, and the preference for death over servitude.
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis — Cato the Younger — Roman senator and Stoic philosopher who was Caesar's most implacable opponent and chose suicide at Utica rather than live under Caesar's dominion, becoming the supreme Roman exemplar of philosophical integrity and republican virtue.
Lucius Junius Brutus — the founder of the Roman Republic — who led the uprising against Tarquinius Superbus after the rape of Lucretia, drove out the kings, and established the consulship, becoming Rome's first consul — and who later executed his own sons when they conspired to restore the monarchy.
Italian-American political philosopher at Princeton who is a leading interpreter of Machiavelli — and whose Machiavelli and the Republican Idea argues that Machiavelli is best understood as a civic republican rather than an amoralist — and who has written on republicanism and patriotism.
American historian — Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College — author of Republics Ancient and Modern — who traces the intellectual history of republican government from Athens through the American Founding.