On the Good Life (Cicero, tr. Grant) Society has [shown, subsequent to the decline of the hitherto predominating Ciceronian influence,] that it has not learnt Ciceros principal messages. [...] Perhaps they are too relevant: they strike near the bone, since few people have the time or inclination to reflect about the practical principles that ought to be governing their lives. Ciceros ideals do not dwell in Utopias, but in the real world. His treatises are for people who possess mature and independent minds, who have no desire to follow other minds slavishly, and who are compelled, in the course of their daily existences, to grapple with problems which are complex -- rarely admitting of a purely intellectual solution -- and which call on all the resources of their humanity.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:35:58 +0000
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