Sunday, April 7, 2019

New Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

My next book will be Meditations by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.  Apparently it's a bunch of thoughts that he wrote down over two decades, rather than a unified treatise.  It's also said to be a work of Stoic philosophy.  I know very little about this.  Nonetheless, the concept of a philosopher-king is quite appealing right now, for abundantly obvious reasons, so let's find out what an actual philosopher-king had to say.