SECOND TAKE
DALLAS NEWS: Placing the greater good above ourselves
The pandemic presents us with a situation that asks us to temper our individual rights
23 April 2020 - 15:16
In 44 BC, with Julius Caesar assassinated and the Roman Republic at its end, the philosopher Cicero, understanding his own execution could shortly follow, wrote a series of letters to his son that would become a sort of guide for how human beings should live.
Cicero put forward important concepts of our obligations as free people — obligations that consider how we are bound together in a life of shared responsibilities that are inseparable from our individual rights...
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