Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: History
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Is There a Training for Rule?
Bibb: I still dislike the aspect of stoicism, which says that which defines anger and grief as passions which are inappropriate judge ments about the world. And i don't know whether it's a good effect or a bad effect, but it's certainly been a powerful effect. Bib: It's very interesting that both julian the apostate and constantine, who come not long after, are emperors who ere intent on proving themselves to be philosophers. That goes off into the early modern period, as catherine said earlier, and becomes a real issue, what is the training for rule? In our own country, we don't really believe there's any training for
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