How to Think About God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers Audiobook (Free)

A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential Stoic writings around the divine

Most ancient Romans were deeply spiritual and their globe was filled with gods-from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless neighborhood divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. Perhaps one of the most important Roman perspectives on religious beliefs originated from a nonreligious perception system that is finding new adherents even today: Stoicism. How do the Stoics consider religion? In How exactly to Think about God, about How to Think About God: A HISTORICAL Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers Philip Freeman presents stunning new translations of Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods as well as the Imagine Scipio. In these brief works, Cicero presents a Stoic look at of perception, divinity, and human immortality, providing eloquent expression towards the religious ideas of 1 of the most popular academic institutions of Roman and Greek idea.

On the type of the Gods as well as the Dream of Scipio are Cicero’s best-known and most important writings on religion, plus they have profoundly shaped Christian and non-Christian thought for more than two thousand years, influencing such luminaries as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, and Thomas Jefferson. These functions reveal lots of the religious aspects of Stoicism, including an understanding of the world like a materialistic however constant and living whole in which both gods and a supreme God are crucial elements.