On Obligations
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On Obligations
| Author | Cicero |
|---|---|
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Cicero’s De Officiis*, written as a letter to his son in 44 BC in the months after Caesar’s assassination and shortly before his own death: what duty requires, and why the honourable and the expedient cannot finally conflict — a working politician trying to say what philosophy obliges him to do.* |
On Obligations
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, alongside Diogenes Laertius, Plutarch and Boethius, on its Fall 2025 reading list, November 2025. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
About this edition
On Obligations is P. G. Walsh’s Oxford World’s Classics title for the work; it also circulates in English as On Duties.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this was assigned in.
- The University of Austin — the institution whose course list this is.
- Cicero — the author.
- Stoicism — the framework he is working within.
- Classics
- Human Nature
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.