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The aim of the following article is to show that asceticism, as work on the self for moral progress, plays a major role in the ciceronian ethics in relation with the soul/body analogy and the therapeutic fonction of Philosophy. To prove that, I invite to a reading of the Tusculandisputations, whose five books appear as exercices intented to guide the soul towards wisdom. However this ascetic practice, which takes the form of inner speech, includes major theoretical issues as the ciceronian exercitatio roots in a dualistic psychology, inspired of the platonician pattern. Moreover, the development of asceticism, which refers to the Roman tradition and the Cynics’ teaching, is a critical response to the stoic intellectualism.
CLIL theme: 4127 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie -- Philosophie éthique et politique