On Duties: A Stoic Blueprint for Ethical Choices with Chris Gill

This video is an excerpted version of our Conversations with Modern Stoicism event with Professor Chris Gill.
Event notes: bit.ly/MSC-Notes-Nov2023-Gill
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About our Presenter:
Chris Gill is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter, where he taught for many years before retiring at the end of 2013. His research has focused on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially ethics and psychology.
Chris is the author of several acclaimed books examining ancient conceptions of self and personality, including The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought and Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue, for which he was awarded a Runciman Prize in 1997.
More recently, Chris has published a major commentary on the first six books of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, providing new insights into the Stoic foundations of this important text. He has also co-edited volumes interpreting the work of the Roman physician Galen.
Chris remains actively engaged in research and public outreach focused on the relevance of ancient Stoic ethics and Galenic medicine to modern times. He frequently gives invited lectures internationally on these topics.
His ‘latest book is Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance' (2022).
An introductory book on Stoic ethics written in collaboration with Brittany Polat is in production.
In short, Chris is a leading scholar who has greatly advanced our understanding of ancient Stoic and Platonic thought. He is a founding member of Modern Stoicism.

[@melaniemcneil407]

Yes, they seem to all work together. I first considered the virtue of wisdom as related to thought, and justice as related to behavior, for instance. But as I thought more, I saw that you can't have right behavior without right thought. Courage and temperance are both behavioral and how we think, and depend on the wisdom we bring to them.

[@leoiermano-wz8lu]

Excellent discussion I would also take a look at Quintus Curtis’s recent translation of Cicero’s on duties