tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335096942041474758.post7243224759355302772..comments2023-02-10T20:47:50.608-05:00Comments on Hear Around Corners: Cicero's 'Civiliter'a.f.c.tankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620895863008915882noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335096942041474758.post-62996136420732641502010-03-03T12:12:06.493-05:002010-03-03T12:12:06.493-05:00NOTE: the following comment was posted on 2.26.10 ...NOTE: the following comment was posted on 2.26.10 by PsychoKiller and is reposted here on his behalf. <br /><br />AFC's mention of my Ciceronian predilection has led to this advise to the Motion Picture Academy and all of its members (including Lindsey, Paris, Sean, et al ) from Cicero's On The Good Life (44 BC): <br /><br />Moral goodness has been held to fall into three subdivisions; the first is the ability to distinguish the truth from falsity, and to understand the relationships between one phenomenon and another and the causes and consequences of each one.<br />The second category is the ability to restrain the passions (pathe in Greek) and to make the appetites (hormai) amenable to reason.<br />The third is the capacity to behave considerately and understandingly in our associations with other people.<br />See On Duties (II)<br /><br />Cicero is one of the preeminent Roman statesmen, orators, rhetoricians and Stoic philosophers having adopted stoicism from its Greek roots, primarily through Zeno and others.a.f.c.tankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03620895863008915882noreply@blogger.com