Stenka Razin
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			Deliberations Regarding Cicero's "On Rights" -- p. 14-26
	The passage we're currently concerned with from On Rights is an attempt at describing the rights afforded and duties assigned to a person by virtue of being a part of civilized society. In doing so, Cicero is trying to work by example, mentioning both history and myths to better illustrate what he is talking about. His conception of rights seem to depend on the idea that a person does not belong to themselves alone, and that their family, village, and state all have a stake in them. These stakes culminate in a plethora of duties that must be fulfilled by all upstanding members of society. Many of the ideas presented here remain popular even today and have survived the withering onslaught of individualism and liberal notions of personhood, for which they deserve our attention and critical analysis.
	Let us begin by unpacking Cicero's conception of justice. Justice is a word with meanings that are highly subjective and at times contentious, but what all of these points of view  have in common is that they're concerned with what punishment or reward is due for the fulfillment or dereliction of specific duties, and with what the response should be to those who are either denied their rights or are found to be in overreach of them. In no uncertain terms, Cicero lays out that anyone who covets what is beyond their fair share "will violate the law of human society (p.14)".