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Unabridged philosophy audiobooks by Plato (Parmenides), Aristotle (Economics), Cicero (On Moral Duties) and Plotinus (Enneads). Topics discussed include ethics, justice, law, logic, metaphysics, God, happiness, love and beauty. Each book has been streamlined by merging separate LibriVox recordings into a single seamless whole with no interruptions. These public domain recordings are available advertisement free from LibriVox at www.librivox.org and they are also available in uncompressed Hi-Res WAV64 and FLAC formats from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. Painting: La Perle et la vague by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, 1862.

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Tusculan Disputations by Cicero

Mar 1, 2016

Book II 2:21:36, III 3:32:37, IV 5:07:12, V 6:36:43

Tusculan Disputations (Latin: TUSCULANARUM DISPUTATIONUM) is divided into five books which discuss death, pain, grief, perturbations and virtue. At issue is whether wise people can always be happy regardless of the apparent evil that fortune throws in their way. Andrew Peabody says the A. and M. in the text may stand for Auditor, Adolescens, Atticus or Aulus and Marcus or Magister. Painting: The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche.