I highly recommend readers take time to listen to this session of We the People podcast from the National Constitution Center and how the founders read from Cicero’s The Tusculan Disputations in their quest for personal virtue – which none achieved but strived toward, followed by historians and writers reflecting on civic virtue in maintaining a democracy.
Think for yourself and the ability to reason – these must be resurrected.
Panelists include Jeffrey Rosen, Director of the National Constitution Center, and University of Chicago Professor Eric Slauter, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will; and Melody Barnes, executive director of UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy.
The Founders and the Pursuit of Happiness, and the Virtuous Life
Cicero’s The Tusculan Disputations
Who was Cicero? Link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Susan Feathers 