Meditations
byMarcus Aurelius
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Meditations
byMarcus Aurelius
- ★★★★4.0 (132 ratings)
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Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.
Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161–180). A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. 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. For anyone who struggles to reconcile the demands of leadership with a concern for personal integrity and spiritual well-being, the Meditations remains as relevant now as it was two thousand years ago.
In Gregory Hays’s new translation—the first in thirty-five years—Marcus’s thoughts speak with a new immediacy. In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text. Never before have Marcus’s insights been so directly and powerfully presented.
With an Introduction that outlines Marcus’s life and career, the essentials of Stoic doctrine, the style and construction of the Meditations, and the work’s ongoing influence, this edition makes it possible to fully rediscover the thoughts of one of the most enlightened and intelligent leaders of any era.
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07 The golden book of Marcus Aurelius. 1898, J.M. Dent | zzzz |
08 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: an English translation with introductory study on stoicism and the last of the Stoics 1898, Macmillan in English - 2nd. ed. | zzzz |
09 The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 1891, Little, Brown | zzzz |
10 The thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus 1886, G. Bell in English and Ancient Greek - Rev. ed. | zzzz |
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Edition Notes
"Tarcher Cornerstone editions."
Includes bibliographical references.
- Published in
- New York
Classifications
- Dewey Decimal Class
- 188
- Library of Congress
- B581 .N44 2008
The Physical Object
- Pagination
- xxx, 110 p. ;
- Number of pages
- 110
Edition Identifiers
- Open Library
- OL21874110M
- ISBN 13
- 9781585426171
- LCCN
- 2007046041
- LibraryThing
- 4196280
- Goodreads
- 2467557
Work Identifiers
- Work ID
- OL1317211W
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