Although not usually regarded as an original thinker, I argue that Cicero's analysis of political society is original in consequence of his employment of Roman legal and political concepts. He draws on these concepts - especially the concept of rights found in Roman law - to develop an account...

The article provides a new translation and interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics M3, arguing that Aristotle uses there the QUA as a perspective of intellectual action: an operator on actions rather than a filter on objects. Instead of Aristotle's mathematics being a science of “Objects QUA...