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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Clarendon later ancient philosophers |
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Clarendon later ancient philosophers.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Abbreviations and Conventions; INTRODUCTION; Overview; The Meditations-Main Features; Is There a Core Project?; Marcus' Ethical Outlook; Confronting Death and Transience; Ethics and Other Branches of Philosophy: Psychology; Ethics and Other Branches of Philosophy: the Universe; INTRODUCTION TO BOOK 1; Note on the Text and Translation; TRANSLATION; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; COMMENTARY; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Bibliography; List of Main Themes in Meditations 2-6; Index Locorum; A; C; D; E; F; G; H; L; M; O; P; Q; S; T; V; X |
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General IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z |
| Summary |
Christopher Gill provides a new translation and commentary on the first half of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a full introduction to the Meditations as a whole. The Meditations constitute a unique and remarkable work, a reflective diary or notebook by a Roman emperor, that is based on Stoic philosophy but presented in a highly distinctive way. Gill focuses on the philosophical content of the work, especially the question of how far it is consistentwith Stoic theory as we know this from other sources. He argues that the Meditations are largely consistent with Stoic theory--more than has bee |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English, translated from Greek |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 30, 2013) |
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Ethics.
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Stoics.
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Life.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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stoicism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Ethics
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Life
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Stoics
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Early works
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Translations
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gill, Christopher
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| ISBN |
9780191502422 |
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0191502421 |
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