Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)

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Waterfield has written an accessible translation of Marcus’s writings that I believe even non-philosophy people will enjoy. The year of his birth coincided with his grandfather’s second tenure of the consulship, in theory Rome’s highest office, though now of largely ceremonial importance. Remedies granted through dreams-when I was coughing blood, for instance, and having fits of dizziness. Marcus would have read Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and the tragedies of Euripides side by side with the Aeneid, and studied the speeches of the great Athenian orator Demosthenes as intensively as those of the Roman statesman Cicero.

To show your teachers ungrudging respect (the Domitius and Athenodotus story), and your children unfeigned love. His ability to get along with everyone: sharing his company was the highest of compliments, and the opportunity an honor for those around him.With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Attempts have been made to tie the first to Marcus’s philosophical convictions and the second to his own memories of life without a father. He’s not someone whose work is likely to resonate with people in the same way that the Meditations seems to do, but I think he’s fascinating from a historical point of view: he’s really someone who’s on the cusp between classical culture and the Christian middle ages and he reflects aspects of both. The first challenge with reviewing an ancient work such as this is to clarify WHAT is being reviewed. Our experienced leaders and process improvement experts offer strategic consulting, training, coaching and project support.

b p Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.

Roman stoicism, by contract, was a practical discipline—not an abstract system of thought, but an attitude of life.

That when I became interested in philosophy I didn't fall into the hands of charlatans, and didn't get bogged down in writing treatises, or become absorbed by logic-chopping, or preoccupied with physics. This is another reminder that we are mortal, but also to live our lives and not worry about our legacy. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done and there is nothing new under the sun. That I had good grandparents, a good mother and father, a good sister, good teachers, good servants, relatives, friends-almost without exception.

She got annoyed with how perfect and stoic he was - when in fact, the exact opposite is true and her assessment above is the correct one: he's not: but he wanted to be. Marcus's insights and advice--on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others--have made the "Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding.