Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please “The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.”Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Salve! This issue’s theme is Roman Philosophy. But as the rebels in Monty Python’s Life of Brian asked, what have the Romans ever done for us? The question seems relevant here; we are philosophers, not archaeologists. What ideas did Roman philosophers contribute that we can actually use today? To answer this, first let’s set the scene.…