In this second lecture of our series on Stoic Paradoxes, we focus on the influences behind Cicero’s thought, and how he identified himself doctrinally.
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In this second lecture of our series on Stoic Paradoxes, we focus on the influences behind Cicero’s thought, and how he identified himself doctrinally.
This podcast is brought to you by Fortress of the Mind Publications.
My next book, Pantheon, is nearing completion. It is expected to be released in late March or early April 2015. Like Thirty-Seven, it will also be a collection of essays. The themes of the book are: redemption through suffering, the importance of masculine character, victory through perseverance, the finding of a moral purpose, and the glory of struggle.
But this is a more ambitious project than my previous effort. A conscious effort has been made to examine sources in their original languages. There are some efforts at historical fiction, as well as philosophical dialogues. Most differently, I have summarized and condensed the entire text (all fifty-four treatises) of Plotinus’s Enneads. It almost forms a book-within-a-book. The Enneads is the foundational text of Western mysticism, and I have long felt that a basic knowledge of this subject is essential for any man seeking to journey inward, as well as outward. Much has been written on the physical journeys required by man; we must now explore the inner journey.
More will be posted as information becomes available.
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