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Lecture | The Philosopher Chrysippus on What Makes Right Acts Right

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 6:00 pm

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When W.D. Ross's 1930 The Right and the Good poses the question, "what makes right acts right?", it raises a question that is prior to, and has a bearing on, the practical question, "how do I determine the right thing to do?" The Stoics recognize this: Cicero tells us that every inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a [theoretical] part concerned with the ends of goods and evils, which addresses such matters as whether all duties are perfect (omniane official perfecta sint), whether some are more important than others, and what are the kinds of duties, and (2) a [practical] part which sets out rules (praecepta) by which our conduct can be made to conform with the end. While Cicero proposes to focus his work on (2), this lecture seeks the prior answer to (1).

Speaker Rachana Kamtekar is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell University and has written on many topics in ancient philosophy and contemporary moral psychology.

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