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  title info:
    title: Marcus Aurelius
  name:
    name part: Sellars, John
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 146 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In this new study, John Sellars offers a fresh examination of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as a work of philosophy by placing it against the background of the tradition of Stoic philosophy to which Marcus was committed. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is a perennial bestseller, attracting countless readers drawn to its unique mix of philosophical reflection and practical advice. The emperor is usually placed alongside Seneca and Epictetus as one of three great Roman Stoic authors, but he wears his philosophy lightly, not feeling the need to state explicitly the ideas standing behind the reflections that he was writing for himself. As a consequence, his standing as a philosopher has often been questioned. Challenging claims that Marcus Aurelius was merely an eclectic thinker, that the Meditations do not fit the model of a work of philosophy, that there are no arguments in the work, and that it only contains superficial moral advice, Sellars shows that he was in constant dialogue with his Stoic predecessors, engaging with themes drawn from all three parts of Stoicism, logic, physics and ethics. The image of Marcus Aurelius that emerges is of a committed Stoic, engaging with a wide range of philosophical topics, motivated by the desire to live a good life. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of both classics and philosophy.
  note: John Sellars.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [130]-137) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Emperor of Rome
      name part: Marcus Aurelius
      name part: 121-180
  classification: B583 .S455 2021
  classification: 188
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Philosophy in the Roman world
  identifier: 9780367146061
  identifier: 0367146061
  identifier: 9780367146078
  identifier: 036714607X
  identifier: 9780429052651
  identifier: 2020006226
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200206
    record change date: 20200831151408.0
    record identifier: in00004174445