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'In this delightful and well written book, Alan Stedall … has done an enormous service in making some of Marcus Aurelius's reflections very accessible to the modern reader'
Faith & Freedom
'The Dialogues are eminently readable and immediate …in places it is irresistible'
The Philosopher
'I was drawn deeper and deeper into the simple solid reasoning …Stedall's imagined dialogue had me fully in the present'
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The Smoking Poet
Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest Roman emperors, is remembered less for his military exploits than for his private reflections. His Meditations, as they became known, have been a major influence on Western thought and behaviour down the centuries the pen is mightier than the sword. Seeking an alternative to faith based religion, Alan Stedall came across the book and found rational answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of life that had been troubling him. Here too were answers to his concern that, in the absence of moral beliefs based on religion, we risk creating a world where relativism, the rejection of any sense of absolute right or wrong, prevails. In such a society any moral position is considered subjective and amoral behaviour is unchallengeable. Because the Meditations were jotted down in spare moments during a busy life ruling and defending a huge empire, they lack order and sequence.
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Publish dateAug 8, 2012
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Table of contents
1MARCUS AURELIUS
2MARCUS AURELIUS
3Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, AD121-180
4Hymn of Cleanthes, Stoic Philosopher, 331-231BC
5CONTENTS
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6On the Brevity of Life and the
7PUBLISHER’S NOTE
8MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
9IT WAS AFTER nineteen years as a Roman Catholic that
10Meditations
11The Dialogues
12MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
13INTRODUCTION
14THE STOIC DIALOGUES OF MARCUS AURELIUS
15The Death of an Emperor
16MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
17THE DEATH OF AN EMPEROR
18The Philosopher King
19MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
20respect, benevolent of course.’
21against evil.’
22MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
23DISCUSSIONS AT AQUILEIA
24On the Brevity of Life and the Need to Seek Meaning
25guests.
26MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
27ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE AND THE NEED TO SEEK MEANING
28On the Pursuit of Purpose
29MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
30ON THE PURSUIT OF PURPOSE
31On the Supreme Good
32MARCUS AURELIUS: THE DIALOGUES
33ON THE SUPREME GOOD
34this pursuit of a life consistent with our best nature that
35ON THE PURSUIT OF THE VIRTUOUS LIFE
36‘No, but perhaps the sins of their parents or their tribe
37IN MORE RECENT history admiration for Marcus
38APPENDIX
394 Anthony R. Birley, op. cit. p.38.
409 Maxwell Staniforth, op. cit. p.20.
4111 Anthony R. Birley, op. cit. p.223.
4212 Maxwell Staniforth, op. cit. p.21.
4314 Anthony R. Birley, op. cit. p.222.
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