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Subject(s)

• Ethics [Browse]
• Life [Browse]
• Stoics [Browse]

Related name

• Hard, Robin [Browse]

Series

Oxford World's Classics [More in this series]

Summary note

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, highly charged comments, Marcus draws on Stoic philosophy to confront challenges that he felt acutely, but which are also shared by all human beings - the looming presence of death, making sense of one's social role and projects, the moral significance of the universe. They bring us closer to th

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 30, 2016).

Language note

English

Contents

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""A Chronology of Marcus Aurelius""; ""MEDITATIONS""; ""BOOK 1""; ""BOOK 2""; ""BOOK 3""; ""BOOK 4""; ""BOOK 5""; ""BOOK 6""; ""BOOK 7""; ""BOOK 8""; ""BOOK 9""; ""BOOK 10""; ""BOOK 11""; ""BOOK 12""; ""Appendix: A Selection from the Correspondence between Marcus Cornelius Fronto and Marcus Aurelius""; ""Explanatory Notes""; ""List of Letters Translated""; ""Index of Themes""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""V""; ""W""

ISBN

• 0-19-183837-3
• 0-19-161773-3

OCLC

769344008

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