Cicero’s Summum Bonum and the Greatest Commandment
Romans like Cicero recognized the structure of human motivation.


Above: Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882–1888 Philosophy, ideally, brings our rational inquiry to a proper level of cultivation that allows us to accept the revelation in the Gospels. Praeparatio evangelica is a doctrine of the early Church, which maintains that God, prior to the fullness of revelation in His Son, already cultivated the soil, as it were…