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Donald Robertson on Marcus Aurelius and Understanding Stoicism

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Philosophy of Meditation

It's like meditations is the by product, oh, the physic of the philosophy, as opposed to the articulation of the philosophy. I think that's partly why the meditations became so popular. He leaves us enough space, we t project ourselves into his shoes. The downside of it, i think, is that it does, at times, become alevel but abstract. And if you stop to combine it with a history and imagine hat he's talking about real people and real situations. Im i think in some that allows us to pen more of ha human face, unstat philosophy, and see what marcus is saying is more of a cane of livable philosophy of life.

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