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November 12, 2024 (14256)
Let’s sum up the work I’ve done over the last 28 days while studying Cicero. I’ve read On Duty, On the Republic, On the Nature of Gods, On Divination, On Fate, Tusculan Disputations, The Orator and some of Cicero’s speeches. I did a comparative analysis of these books in English, Russian and Latin, examining various concepts like “summum bonum”, “summum malum”, “virtus”, “dedecus”, “dolor”, “honestum”, “cognitio”, etc. I’ve listened to multiple lectures on the Roman Republic, the best of which were the series by prof. David L. Kennedy. I also read many articles on wikipedia, examining the relationship between Rome, Carthage and Greece, as well as the period called the Crisis of the Roman Republic (133–44 BCE) and its key players like Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar.
It took me two weeks to write and memorize the lecture, after which my interest in Cicero was in decline. Moreover, I was distracted by prof. Dave’s attack on Sabine Hossenfelder and paid a lot of attention to their fight on youtube. Plus, some clownish political commentators like N. Ferguson and international relations scholars like J. Mearsheimer grabbed my curiosity from time to time, adding to the volume of cognitive noise. Yet, despite all of that, I’ve preserved the commitment to the task of studying Cicero up until this very day, and most of my thinking still revolves around him. All these 28 days, I was building a Ciceronian identity in my mind, teleporting him from ancient Rome and setting on the contemporary psychopolitical stage. The questions like, “What would I do?” and “How would I think?” if I were an upgraded version of Cicero helped me reach many remarkable insights.
With respect to the lecture, I think it’s a masterpiece of a kind the Russian language has never seen before. Ten more lectures like that, and it’s going to be impossible to ignore my work and simultaneously call oneself a philosophically educated person in Russian. Will I be able to write ten more lectures like that? We’ll see. The next target is Descartes.

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290.

November 12, 2024 (14256)
Let’s sum up the work I’ve done over the last 28 days while studying Cicero. I’ve read On Duty, On the Republic, On the Nature of Gods, On Divination, On Fate, Tusculan Disputations, The Orator and some of Cicero’s speeches. I did a comparative analysis of these books in English, Russian and Latin, examining various concepts like “summum bonum”, “summum malum”, “virtus”, “dedecus”, “dolor”, “honestum”, “cognitio”, etc. I’ve listened to multiple lectures on the Roman Republic, the best of which were the series by prof. David L. Kennedy. I also read many articles on wikipedia, examining the relationship between Rome, Carthage and Greece, as well as the period called the Crisis of the Roman Republic (133–44 BCE) and its key players like Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar.
It took me two weeks to write and memorize the lecture, after which my interest in Cicero was in decline. Moreover, I was distracted by prof. Dave’s attack on Sabine Hossenfelder and paid a lot of attention to their fight on youtube. Plus, some clownish political commentators like N. Ferguson and international relations scholars like J. Mearsheimer grabbed my curiosity from time to time, adding to the volume of cognitive noise. Yet, despite all of that, I’ve preserved the commitment to the task of studying Cicero up until this very day, and most of my thinking still revolves around him. All these 28 days, I was building a Ciceronian identity in my mind, teleporting him from ancient Rome and setting on the contemporary psychopolitical stage. The questions like, “What would I do?” and “How would I think?” if I were an upgraded version of Cicero helped me reach many remarkable insights.
With respect to the lecture, I think it’s a masterpiece of a kind the Russian language has never seen before. Ten more lectures like that, and it’s going to be impossible to ignore my work and simultaneously call oneself a philosophically educated person in Russian. Will I be able to write ten more lectures like that? We’ll see. The next target is Descartes.

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