On the Ends of Good and Evil
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
On the Ends of Good and Evil (Latin: DE FINIBUS BONORUM ET MALORUM) discusses Skeptic, Epicurean, Stoic, Peripatetic and Academic views on the good life. Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Harris Rackham. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards) (8 hr 5 min)
Chapters
| 01 - Book I Chapters I-X (Text 1) | 37:03 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 02 - Book I Chapters XI-XXI (Text 41) | 34:50 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 03 - Book II Chapters I-XI (Text 79) | 42:50 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 04 - Book II Chapters XII-XXII (Text 123) | 42:10 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 05 - Book II Chapters XXIII-XXXV (Text 165) | 48:17 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 06 - Book III Chapters I-X (Text 217) | 38:24 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 07 - Book III Chapters XI-XXII (Text 255) | 43:57 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 08 - Book IV Chapters I-XV (Text 301) | 46:38 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 09 - Book IV Chapters XVI-XXVIII (Text 347) | 40:53 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 10 - Book V Chapters I-XI (Text 391) | 38:18 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 11 - Book V Chapters XII-XX (Text 429) | 28:24 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
| 12 - Book V Chapters XXI-XXXII (Text 459) | 43:51 | Read by Geoffrey Edwards |
Reviews
Staccato reading, but grateful
A LibriVox Listener
thanks for reading this text! it was not an easy listen both due to the content as due to the monotone reading. The Latin pronunciation was good, as far as I could tell. I'm glad you took the time to read it.
classic of liberal thought
Jon Mark Wilson
How refreshing to see a conversation among people in disagreement proceed in both good manners and good humor. Cicero points out the validity and inconsistency in the philosophical currents of his time, models which continue to influence ethics and worldviews to the present. These ancient dialectics are hard to follow, both in print and by audio. I appreciate the measured and carefully articulated effort by the reader to account for the lengthy sentences and their subclauses. Material like this might be more clearly presented if each character were voiced differently. My take away is that Cicero points to the problem of pain and its connection to goods and evils and to one's state of happiness, which none of the systems can quite account for to his satisfaction.
cannot listen to this reader
Martin Genev
please get another reader for these texts. this guy keeps pausing in mid sentence.
the readers voice is the worst
hauskins41