Here you will find my various pieces of writing. Cicero was an avid writer and there is more of his writing which survives from the ancient world than any other writer. These essays are not meant to be doctrinal. Therefore, I encourage you, my reader, to think through my arguments and claims and challenge them for yourself. I hope only to lead you to a thought, the thinking must be done yourself…
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Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to find a direction for the Via Ciceronis. However, whenever I set out to write, I found myself needing to turn back. Either I jumped to a destination so that there was no path to follow, or I got lost in a forest of details next…
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Last week we set out on the Via Ciceronis with the intention of reaching a vantage point from which we shall be able to look at the world from a different perspective and understand ourselves, our social communities, and the world around us better. With our destination clear and our compass aligned, we are now…
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In our previous discussion we spoke about ratiō and how Cicero understood rationality as something that the human mind had access to but did not have influence over. Rationality was sourced from nature and the guiding life essence, and it enabled the human mind to reason. But what do we mean when we talk about…
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Now we have a grasp on the nature of rationality (ratio) and the inward state (animus), we are ready to take on a discussion of the Latin word perturbatio. Translated loosely, perturbatio is the word used to refer to an emotion. Although the word ‘perturbation’ exists in English, I am reluctant to use it since…
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