Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)

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p In Gregory Hays's new translation--the first in thirty-five years--Marcus's thoughts speak with a new immediacy. Waterfield has written an accessible translation of Marcus’s writings that I believe even non-philosophy people will enjoy. While Meditations does have more popular one-liners, Letters from a Stoic maintains a degree of originality and has more relatable applications and examples of applying Stoicism towards everyday human experiences that’s just missing from Mediations. Not prone to go off on tangents, or pulled in all directions, but sticking with the same old places and the same old things.

The Historia Augusta's biography of Avidius Cassius, thought to have been written in the 4th century, records that before Marcus set out on the Marcomannic Wars, he was asked to publish his Precepts of Philosophy in case something should befall him, but he instead "for three days discussed the books of his Exhortations one after the other". An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding.I would recommend Waterfield’s translation to those who are new to Aurelius and Stoicism because it is heavily annotated and the introduction by Waterfield gives a good overview of both Aurelius and the significance of his writings. Stoicism is not without its faults, but it absolutely has tenants and perspectives that have enriched my everyday lived experience. His awareness of his own mortality and how transient life is made him grateful for every day and for every person in his life. As long as we’re not hurting other people, we are doing just fine and their opinion holds no weight. Serious philosophical investigation required a familiarity with the language they wrote in and the terminology they developed.

United States President Bill Clinton said that Meditations is his favorite book, [28] and former United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis carried his own personal copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius throughout his deployments as a Marine Corps officer in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq. That I had someone-as a ruler and as a father-who could keep me from being arrogant and make me realize that even at court you can live without a troop of bodyguards, and gorgeous clothes, lamps, sculpture-the whole charade. Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. I could find no listing on Goodreads that I'm confident is a fair reflection of what I actually read.He disagreed with the dead philosophers he was in dialogue with, on occasion - so I suppose I'm continuing on in the tradition. He let the pages slip past his fingers to the fly leaf where was written with a broad carpenter’s pencil, “Sam’l Hamilton. Gives a bit more context and some of the phrasing just seemed a bit less off-putting than the other version I had read. There are valuable lessons in this, some more valuable than others depending on the person, which make me glad I read it. Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire describes the reign of Antoninus as “furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.