古罗马伟大的雄辩家、执政官。他翻译和介绍了大量希腊哲学，在伦理问题上兼收斯多葛派、柏拉图学院派长处，其自然法概念奠定了罗马法理念核心。
Rome's foremost statesman, orator, and philosophical popularizer. He served as consul and exposed the Catiline conspiracy, then opposed Caesar and Antony's autocratic ambitions. He was assassinated on Antony's orders, extending his neck to the executioner's blade. His severed hands were displayed in the Roman Forum.
Cicero was the great translator and synthesizer of Greek philosophy for the Roman world. Though he produced no original metaphysical system, he introduced the thought of Plato, the Stoics, and the Academy to Rome. His central contribution was the theory of natural law: there exists a universal, eternal rational law prior to and above any human legislation, rooted in human dignity and conscience, by which all positive law and tyranny must be judged.
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting. Any attempt to alter or abolish it is impiety."
西塞罗为了不向凯撒在内的极独裁大权贵奴颜跪拜，在面对利刃劈头砍来之时，坦荡而高尚地伸长脖子受刑。他在两千年前，就指认出：人必须时刻警惕并起来对一切践踏人类正义、违抗最高良心理性的现实不道德霸权令，进行神圣无惧的傲骨抗拒。你的良心里，是否也留存有这把独立在任何权贵风气之上的、金灿灿的自然法之尺？
Plato's ideal republic and transcendent justice remain largely theoretical, situated beyond reach of ordinary societies. Cicero translated these ideals into the concrete institutions of Roman law, oratory, and civic practice, making justice take root in the legal and political machinery of a real republic.
In pursuing social reform, do we sketch perfect utopian models in theory, or enter the messy compromise of practical governance and incremental reform?
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