Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture 8: Lecture 8, Part 2 – Roman Philosophy of Crime

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14 Mar 2012

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Western University

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Classical Studies

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Classical Studies 2301A/B

Professor

Randall Pogorzelski

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In the case of our senses no parent or nurse or teacher or poet or stage-show distorts them, nor does popular opinion lead them astray. Cicero confronting the idea that different people have different idea of what crime and justice are. Because people have different ideas of what crime, law and justice are suggests there is no universal thing that is law, justice, crime, etc. Contrasts crime with reality we perceive with our senses: Do not perceive crime with our senses; since we perceive nature with our senses makes it more real. Things we perceive with reason can be affected by location, time, popular culture, etc. ; can affect the way we see crime, justice, etc. , makes it seem like a non-universal thing. Pleasure connected to epicurean philosophy; nothing apart from the physical world. Stoic: real world and ideas are equally real.

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