Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

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Excerpt from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: I. On the Contempt of Death, II. On Bearing Pain, III. On Grief, IV. On the Passions, V. Is Virtue Sufficient for Happiness? 1. Reasons for discussing philosophical subjects in Latin. 2. Poetry and art cultivated in Rome at a comparatively late period. 3. Oratory cherished at an earlier time. Philosophy neglected. 4. Plan of the Tusculan Disputations. 5. "Whether death is an evil, " proposed as the subject for the first day. 6. The stories about the under-world, fictitious. 7. The dead not miserable, if they have ceased to be. 8. Death, on that supposition, is not an evil. 9. Different theories as to the nature of the soul, and as to its fate when the body dies. 10. Aristotle's fifth element, as constituting the soul. 11. The theories of the soul inconsistent, and those consistent, with its continued life. 12. The belief of the ancients in immortality proved by commemorative rites and the honor paid to sepulchres. 13. On this, as on every subject, the common sense of mankind is the law of nature. 14. Instinctive consciousness of immortality. 15. Men crave posthumous praise because they expect to enjoy it. 16. Absurd notion as to the shades of the dead. 17. Souls must tend upward when they leave the body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.