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Record W4214760024 · doi:10.1163/1568525x-bja10101

Cicero, Socrates, and the Fear of Death

2022· article· en· W4214760024 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMnemosyne · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicClassical Philosophy and Thought
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCiceroSOCRATESPhilosophyIronySkepticismDialecticSocratic methodLiteratureEpistemologyArtLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract This article examines the connections between the arguments against the fear of death in Plato’s Apology and the first book of Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations . It argues that Cicero’s dialogue adapts and develops Socrates’ arguments and dialectical method. Cicero signals this debt through his philosophically loaded translation of Ap. 40c-42a at Tusc. 1.97-99. But Cicero also casts Socrates as a foil, drawing an important contrast between Socrates’ philosophical stance and his own: while Socrates deploys irony to hide his view about the nature of death, Cicero advocates a particular form of skepticism that allows one to suspend judgment on certain matters, while nevertheless accepting certain ethically beneficial conclusions.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.717
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.181 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it