De Natura Deorum
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Oct 7, 2026
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
The writer of romance alleviates or denies the bad consequences ascribed to his manner of composition.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
In general, what praise is implied in the simple epithet useful, what reproach in the contrary? Your gods, says Cicero, de natura deorum lib one, in opposition to the Epicureans cannot justly claim any worship or adoration with whatever imaginary perfections you may suppose them endowed.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
They are totally useless and inactive.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Even the Egyptians whom you so much ridicule never consecrated any animal but on account of its utility.
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That is academic skepticism under fire, not paralysis nor reckless certainty, but consequential commitment to the best available judgment, including its costs." Once removed from public life by Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero retreated to his estates and wrote philosophy at extraordinary speed.
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De Natura Deorum, De Divinatione Academica, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, and The Tusculan Disputations, among others.
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De Divinatione applies academic skepticism to superstition and mysticism and is now considered the first treatise ever written on the difference between science and pseudoscience.
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His method there is recognizable to any working scientist.
Gavin OldhamHOST
Authentic integrity, a very different meaning for AI, unapologetically live, acoustic and imperfect.
Gavin OldhamHOST
The lead comment article in the Church Times on the 5th of June was headed, Scientific Evidence for God is Inescapable, and it ended with this quote written by Cicero in 45 BC in his book De Natura Deorum.
Gavin OldhamHOST
The celestial order and beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal being who deserves respect and homage.
Gavin OldhamHOST
In the first epistle of St. John, the apostle tells us that God is love.
Gavin OldhamHOST
So there is a heavenly equivalent of sound.
Gavin OldhamHOST
But speech and singing require language, which is anything but universal.
Gavin OldhamHOST
those who recall the story of Atara Babel in the book of Genesis, chapter 11, will note that it starts by saying, Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
Gavin OldhamHOST
But four verses later, it tells how God said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.