Philosophy Of The Republic and Empire

Question 1

Cicero quotes Panaetius

Answer 1

Is a thing morally right, or wrong?

Is it advantageous or disadvantageous?

This clause he dismisses as being not valid or not meant to be answered I.e., the clash between 1 and 2.

Question 2

Definition of ‘a good man’.

Answer 2

A person who helps everybody he can and, unless wrongfully provoked, harms none.

Question 3

Cicero’s four cardinal virtues.

Answer 3

Wisdom

Justice

Fortitude

Temperance

Question 4

Horatius

Answer 4

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:

“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods.”[4]