Our duties towards country, parents, and friends. With hosts Chris Anadale, Ethan Alexander-Davey, and Ben Peterson.
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IN THIS EPISODE
Book 1, Chapters 55-60
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HOSTS
Christopher Anadale is podcast editor for the Ciceronian Society, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. His YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/christopheranadale
Ethan Alexander-Davey is associate professor of political science at Campbell University, where he teaches all the courses on political theory and constitutional law. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times, and Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue Authority and Inequality, both published by Lexington Books.
Aristocratic Souls: https://www.amazon.com/Aristocratic-Souls-Democratic-Political-Theory/dp/1498553265
Aristocratic Voices: https://www.amazon.com/Aristocratic-Voices-Forgotten-Arguments-Inequality/dp/1666933147/
Ben Peterson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Abilene Christianity University, where his research and teaching focus on political theory. He writes about constitutional theory & the institutional implications of differing philosophical and religious foundations. He teaches courses on American government and politics, political science methodology, and political theory, and also contributes essays to publications for a broad audience about public affairs.
His book Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/community-character-and-the-governance-of-the-social-commons-9798216255741/
https://benapeterson.com/
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TEXTS
Translation we read from: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/cicero-duties?format=PB&isbn=9780521348355
Another (free) translation: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/cicero-on-moral-duties-de-officiis
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Music: No. 4 Piano Journey, by Esther Abrami
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Chapters
- (00:00:00) - On Duties: Reading Through the Podcast
- (00:02:06) - On Cicero's On Duties
- (00:03:23) - On Duties, Book 1
- (00:05:34) - Cicero on Friendship and the Republic
- (00:11:39) - Cicero on the Love of the Republic (58)
- (00:15:26) - Duties owed on the basis of gratitude
- (00:19:38) - Cicero on Duty to the Fatherland
- (00:24:59) - Cicero on Honorableness and Experience
- (00:29:35) - On Duties Podcast
