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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Donald Robertson On the Brilliance and Insights of Marcus Aurelius
The Daily Stoic
What's the Problem With Commodus?
"It's taken me some time to apply empathy back to the stoics, is exactly what you're just talking about," he says. "The big thing that we know the romans were really scaled of was civil war, like, and they had a whole bunch over them already." He asks why marcus allowed commodus to take power when it would have been better if there'd been an empire-wide civil war.
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