cicero was a roman lawyer, scholar, politician, statesman. He was familiar with hellenistic philosophyhellenistic philosophy
hellenistic philosophy consists in reconstructions of socrates in stoic and epicureanism and aristotle.
but was an academic skeptic himself.
he wrote paradoxa stoicorum about paradoxparadox
paradox comes from Greek para (against) + doxa (opinion). For deleuze, it's the reversal of good sense and common sense.
le paradoxe est l'affirmation des deux sens a la fois – logic of s...es of the stoicstoic
a stoic practices stoicism, the hellenistic philosophy founded by zeno of citium (c. 335-252 bc) who studied with plato's successors at the academy in athens. zeno taught at the stoa, meani....