Video and Podcast Resources On Cicero's Shorter Works

useful for studying On Fate, Stoic Paradoxes, and On Friendship

I asked all of you Substack subscribers which philosopher, on whose works I already have video and podcast resources produced, they would most like to see a resource page on. One of the thinkers who got mentioned is Marcus Tullius Cicero. And I have developed quite a few resources on certain of his works over the years. He’s someone I often incorporate within my classes. So, I thought it would make good sense to start with him.

Since I have produced so many videos and podcast episodes on Cicero’s works, and since with the longer ones my coverage of them is at this point just partial, I thought it made sense to start by just aggregating the resources I have on his shorter works in this page. At this point, those works include On Fate, Stoic Paradoxes, and On Friendship. I’ll add additional pages for longer works like On The Ends, On Duties, and On The Nature Of The Gods later on down the line.

In any case, here they are. I hope you find them useful if you choose to study the works and thought of this important and often unfortunately overlooked philosopher.

Cicero’s On Fate

• Temperament And Geographical Determinism | watch video | listen to podcast

• Diodorus' Megarian Position | watch video | listen to podcast

• Epicurus' Position on Fate and Freedom | watch video | listen to podcast

• Chrysippus' Stoic Position | watch video | listen to podcast

• Carneades' Academic Skeptic Position | watch video | listen to podcast

• The Idle Argument | watch video | listen to podcast

Cicero’s Stoic Paradoxes

• What Is Genuinely Good And What Is Not | watch video | listen to podcast

• Why Virtue Is Sufficient For Happiness | watch video | listen to podcast

• The Equality Of Good And Bad Things | watch video | listen to podcast

• Wisdom, Foolishness, Freedom, And Slavery | watch video | listen to podcast

• Why Only The Wise Are Rich | watch video | listen to podcast

Cicero’s On Friendship

• Defining Genuine Friendship | watch video | listen to podcast

• The Advantages Of Friendship | watch video | listen to podcast

• Three Mistaken Views On Friendship | watch video | listen to podcast

• Limits On Loyalty To Friends | watch video | listen to podcast

• Old Friends And New Friends | watch video | listen to podcast

• Friendship Arising From Nature | watch video | listen to podcast

• Friendship, Superiority, And Inferiority | watch video | listen to podcast

• Criticizing Friends | watch video | listen to podcast

• Loving Things Vs. Loving Persons | watch video | listen to podcast

• Choosing Friends Carefully | watch video | listen to podcast

• Slowly Ending Friendships | watch video | listen to podcast

• Avoiding Friendship To Be Free | watch video | listen to podcast

Perhaps later on this year, I’ll produce video and podcast resources on an additional short work by Cicero, his Cato the Elder On Old Age. If I do that, I’ll update this page with links to all of the videos and podcast episodes on that text.