Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Aristotle, Plato, and Plato
Seneca said you should make an account of what you've done and write it down. I think we're beeng a bit unfair to him as as a stoic and in terms of his philosophical knowledge. The meditation shows really quite a deep engagement with the physical and logical basis of stoic ethics. Not an enormous amount, but it is there. He understands the arguments that, you know, fate gives us the push, buti it gives the cylinder the push too. So he's thinking about the relationship between our individual moral responsibility and what's been predetermined.
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