About this book
Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations confronts the fundamental anxieties of life—death, pain, grief, and disturbance—through the steady reason of one of Rome’s greatest orators and thinkers. Cast as five books of philosophical dialogue, Cicero examines whether true happiness depends on fortune or on virtue, drawing on Stoic, Epicurean, and Academic ideas while blending Roman rhetorical force with Hellenistic reflection. Written in the turbulent years of the late Roman Republic and colored by personal loss, the work offers a humane, practical exploration of how wisdom can steady the soul amid adversity.
As both philosophy and ancient text, the Tusculan Disputations balances rigorous argument and consolatory counsel: it analyzes the nature of fear, the experience of pain, the ethics of mourning, and the cultivation of a tranquil mind. The tone is both didactic and intimate, meant to persuade and to comfort without resorting to platitudes.
Ideal for students of philosophy, readers of classical literature, and anyone seeking time-tested guidance on coping with misfortune, this audiobook delivers enduring moral insight and eloquent prose that still speaks to modern anxieties.
