Cicero Core Concept Videos

These are shorter, more closely focused videos (10-30 minutes long), each of which is focused on one key idea in a philosophical thinker's text.  This list will be constantly growing for the next several years -- so check in every once in a while to see new material I've added.

On Fate

• Fate, Locality, and Temperament
• Diodorus on Necessity and Possibility
• Epicurus on Fate and Freedom
• Chrysippus on Fate and Necessity
• Carneades on Voluntary Motion and Fate
• The Idle Argument

On The Ends, book 1

• Epicureans on Pleasure as the Basis
• Pleasure, Pain, and Moral Virtue
• Pleasure and Removal of Pain
• Mental and Bodily Pleasures
• Wisdom, Desire, and Pleasure
• Justice, Desire, and Pleasure
• Temperance, Desire, and Pleasure
• Courage, Desire, and Pleasure
• Epicurean Friendship

On The Ends, book 3

• Primary Impulses of Human Nature
• What Is In Accordance With Nature
• Virtue as the Good
• Virtue and Preferred Indifferents
• Indifferents Preferred, Rejected, and Neutral
• Appropriate Acts or Duties (Officia)
• Wisdom and Other Arts

On Duties, book 1

• General Issues Concerning Duty
• Nature and Reason
• The Four Sources of the Right
• Wisdom as the First Source of Duty
• Justice as the Second Source of Duty
• Courage as the Third Source of Duty
• Temperance as the Fourth Source of Duty
• Committing Justice Though Inaction
• Whether All Promises Should Be Kept
• Just Limits On Revenge And Punishment
• Justice Towards Enemies In War
• Beneficence and Justice
• Guidelines for Benevolence
• Beneficence and Degrees of Relationship
• Courage, Fear and Other Emotions
• Courage, Private Life, and Public Life
• Faction, Elections, and Social Breakdown
• Temperance in Behavior
• Temperance in Speech and Conversation
• Temperance in House Building and Furnishing
• The Four Characters
• Whether Justice Has Priority Over Other Virtues