Meditations Book Report

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) was a Roman Emperor from about i'll say 161 to about 180. He is until this today still considered one of the most influential and important Stoic philosophers of history. This book from what I have seen is almost like a personal notebook or one could say a diary; hey were not intended to be for publication and along with that he called them a “Writing To Myself”. He died from what is believed to be cancer or a plague, furthermore going into the overall summary of the book we start from book one, which in this book the sections aren't called chapters. In book 1 Aurelius basically is paying homage to all of those he feels has had an impact on his life, those he feels he is indebted to. One of the primary people being his grandfather for teaching his to be “candid, …show more content…
Therefore we should always live connected to nature and other people we encounter in our everyday lives. The part that I feel anybody that got this far into the book can agree has been pushed a few too many times at this point is the idea that no matter what you go through in our daily lives we should always maintain and control our minds. At this point we get it no need to keep pushing that plan. Book 9,10,11 all together is a broken record when it comes to being compared to the rest of the book, almost to the point where it’s safe to say he is recycling his thought to almost kind of stretch his personal notebook, seems to me he is thinking too hard at this point. He argues that we should be “moderate, sincere, honest, and calm.” In this case he does add something relatively new by saying if someone ever questions you and says you’re not virtuous, we should “dispel such notions with your probity” in other words with to let actions speak louder than