De officiis
by Cicero · first published 1465
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This year I've read: Maxims - Epictetus The road to serfdom - Friedrich Hayek De officiis - Cicero De divinatione - Cicero Lives of eminent philosophers - Diogenes Laertius Confessions - Al ghazali Illiad - Homer Odyssey - Homer Influence - Robert Cialdini Guns, Germs and steel - Jared…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2017?” ↗…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." -M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. Book II.
on “2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company” ↗…part of the currently accepted definition of slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery "Similarities between wage labour and slavery were noted as early as Cicero in Ancient Rome, such as in De Officiis." If you need the wage from your labour to feed and house yourself, such that you are completely dependent on your employer, how is that functionally different to slavery? Unpaid internships are increasingly…
on “iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages” ↗…as well, at least Confessions. You can't properly understand western thought without understanding the catholic church, and you can't understand the church from the bible alone. Maybe Cicero too, like De Officiis at least (although De Natura Deorum is a more enjoyable read imo). Cicero was a second rate philosopher and incredibly full of himself, but he was extremely influential for a very long time.
on “Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?” ↗…old were given to the Centaur Chiron to nurse, who brought them up in his discipline; which means solely that, as they had for a teacher one who was half beast and half man... been referring to Cicero, De Officiis (44 BC)? http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... > ...there are two ways of settling a dispute: first, by discussion; second, by physical force; and since the former is characteristic…
on “Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)” ↗…Most of history until the Renaissances consisted of the bulk of scholars copying out of "the book" whatever the book happened to be (Euclid, The Bible, Aristotle’s Logica Vetus, Cicero's Orations and De Officiis, 四書五經, 史記, 文選) The liberal concept that the everyman should have their own original thoughts that others should consider is a historically a very new concept. And we start getting things that look a…
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