Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: Philosophy
Is It a Bit of a Caricature?
He was a military commander. He went into wars. The big monument to him is ringed by the number of barbarians he slaughtered. Christians were seemed to be near his philosophy in a way, but they were still criminals when he took power. And he didn't pass a law stopping them being criminals, and so on. E, he got about the business of being a good oldb battling and butchering a roman empior emperor when it was necessary. Is that a bit of a caricature tooo, he's a complex character. I think that's one of the reasons he fascinates me. There are always these tensions between his practical daily life as a er, as
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