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Of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none more noble, none more powerful than when good people of congenial character are joined in intimate friendship.
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983. Justice is instrumental to good living
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Injustice is fatal to social life and fellowship between people. For, if we are so disposed that each, to gain some personal profit, will defraud or injure his neighbor, then the bonds of human society must of necessity be broken. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support982. Tyrannicide and friendship
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If your friend were a tyrant, would you kill him? That is the situation that Brutus faced with respect to Caesar, and which Cicero analyzes in this episode. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/supportNie przegap odcinka z kanału “Stoic Meditations”! Subskrybuj bezpłatnie w aplikacji GetPodcast.
981. Socratic vs ataraxic schools
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There were, broadly speaking, two major clusters of Hellenistic philosophies: the Socratic ones and, for lack of a better term, the ataraxic ones. Let's take a look at the differences. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support980. The conflict between virtue and benefits
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Whether moral goodness is the only good, as the Stoics believe, or whether, as the Peripatetics think, it is the highest of many goods, it is beyond question that expediency can never conflict with moral rectitude. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support979. Self-seeking politicians
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But the chief thing in all public administration and public service is to avoid even the slightest suspicion of self-seeking. For to exploit the state for selfish profit is not only immoral; it is criminal, infamous. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support978. We must apologize for our offenses
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We must apologize also, to the best of our ability, if we have involuntarily hurt anyone’s feelings, and we must by future services and kind offices atone for the apparent offense. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support977. The duty to help the poor
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Relieving the poor is a form of charity that is a service to the state as well as to the individual. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support976. Political theory, not just virtue
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The reason for making constitutional laws was the same as that for making kings. For what people have always sought is equality of rights before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support975. Virtue and human society
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Think of the aqueducts, canals, irrigation works, breakwaters, artificial harbors; how should we have these without the work of people? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support974. The morally right vs the expedient
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It is nowadays accepted that a thing may be morally right without being expedient, and expedient without being morally right. No more pernicious doctrine than this could be introduced into human life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support
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