Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: History
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Aristotle's Meditation
seneca said, at the end of every day, you should make an account of what you've and write it down. And that's a way of becoming a better person. I think we've 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, but i it gives the cylinder thePush. So es, he's really thinking about the relationship between our idual moral responsibility and what's been predetermined.
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