Cicero

Cicero Summary of Cicero’s, On Duties This excerpt from the book, On the Good Life, is a letter from Cicero to his son. I couldn’t even imagine getting something like this from my father. It is full of great advice on how to live your life in such a way that you are regarded as a highly favorable person with impeccable morals. I agree with most of what Cicero has to say in his excerpt, On Duties. In this review I will summarize Cicero’s’ main arguments and his ideas for a better person and nation. I believe that Cicero wrote this book for intelligent individuals who wanted to attain power in life through morally positive avenues; it was written almost as an academic piece. It was also written as a gage with which a person who was reading it could weigh himself. Cicero begins the volume by relating to us why he has chosen Philosophy as his current field of study, his only field of study. He had once been a political leader but since the government “lay under domination of a single individual” (120) he was angry and sorrowful that he had lost some of his good friends to the uprising. cicero, power, money, people, man, help, very, way, agree, believed, someone, person, one, gain, public, must, life, better, believes, without, ways, respect, poor, out, much, just, important, high, good, best, 128, written, true, three, thought, think