From moral theology to moral philosophy: Cicero and visions of humanity from Locke to Hume: by Tim Stuart-Buttle, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, 288 pp., £55 (Hardback), ISBN 9780198835585.

As Stuart-Buttle cautions, Locke and Hume's Cicero, together with all ancient philosophy, was mediated by centuries of humanist and Christian scholarship. As Stuart-Buttle points out, the serious engagement with Cicero's moral philosophy by Locke, Hume and others seemed incomprehensible to nineteenth-century historians such as T. B. Macaulay and Theodor Mommsen (p. 233). Tim Stuart-Buttle's first monograph investigates the development of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the lens of Roman statesman and orator Cicero. [Extracted from the article]