Excerpt From De Officiis, Book III: Vocabulary
Carla Mendoza
Business 1050
11/06/15
Assignment 17
"Excerpt from De Officiis, Book III" Cicero
Vocabulary
1. Accordance- adherence to the right actions
2. Autocrats- ruler with absolute authority
3. Compatriots- a fellow citizen
4. Destitution- extreme poverty
5. Doubtingly- to think something is unlikely
6. Insanitary- unhygienic, unsanitary
7. Panaetius- refers to Panaetius of Rhodes, a Stoic philosopher
8. Peripatetics- one who travels from place to place
9. Pestilential- deadly
10. Stoics- an ancient philosophy
Standard six questions
1. The author of “Excerpt from De Officiis, Book III” was Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero was a roman philosopher, politician and lawyer; he is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators/prose stylists.
2. This …show more content…
This text was very easy for me to understand this shows me that my comprehension has grown more.
Comprehension questions
• By modern standards Cicero could be considered a liberal.
Study questions
1. Things have not changed much for the business person when faced with profits, although nowadays the do lean more towards profits.
2. The right course is something that helps others and doesn’t hurt you. The advantageous course helps you, without helping others or by hurting them.
3. Doing wrong is considered unnatural because doing wrong not only hurts the person who is being done wrong to but it can also unsettle the balance and it hurts the entire community.
4. The aspects of business that are potentially unnatural or wrong are concealing certain unseemly aspects or actively deceiving people of certain aspects of the business by not disclosing them.
5. The rational principle that governs Gods and me alike is that you must never injure anybody for your own profit.
6. The moral dilemma that faces the corn merchant is that: the place where he is going to sell his corn in has experienced a food shortage and other people are looking to take advantage of that by raising prices of food, the merchant is wondering if he should tell the people or keep silent and make more
Business 1050
11/06/15
Assignment 17
"Excerpt from De Officiis, Book III" Cicero
Vocabulary
1. Accordance- adherence to the right actions
2. Autocrats- ruler with absolute authority
3. Compatriots- a fellow citizen
4. Destitution- extreme poverty
5. Doubtingly- to think something is unlikely
6. Insanitary- unhygienic, unsanitary
7. Panaetius- refers to Panaetius of Rhodes, a Stoic philosopher
8. Peripatetics- one who travels from place to place
9. Pestilential- deadly
10. Stoics- an ancient philosophy
Standard six questions
1. The author of “Excerpt from De Officiis, Book III” was Marcus Tullius Cicero. Cicero was a roman philosopher, politician and lawyer; he is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators/prose stylists.
2. This …show more content…
This text was very easy for me to understand this shows me that my comprehension has grown more.
Comprehension questions
• By modern standards Cicero could be considered a liberal.
Study questions
1. Things have not changed much for the business person when faced with profits, although nowadays the do lean more towards profits.
2. The right course is something that helps others and doesn’t hurt you. The advantageous course helps you, without helping others or by hurting them.
3. Doing wrong is considered unnatural because doing wrong not only hurts the person who is being done wrong to but it can also unsettle the balance and it hurts the entire community.
4. The aspects of business that are potentially unnatural or wrong are concealing certain unseemly aspects or actively deceiving people of certain aspects of the business by not disclosing them.
5. The rational principle that governs Gods and me alike is that you must never injure anybody for your own profit.
6. The moral dilemma that faces the corn merchant is that: the place where he is going to sell his corn in has experienced a food shortage and other people are looking to take advantage of that by raising prices of food, the merchant is wondering if he should tell the people or keep silent and make more