Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 3, in which Marcus suggests we should pursue what the highest good for human beings is.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Choosing The Highest Good - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 2, where Marcus gives himself a number of reminders as he begins his day.  These reminders are intended to help him maintain his own good character despite having to deal with people who are indeed bad in specific ways. For those who do understand the nature of goods and evils, there is a greater responsibility to work with their fellow human beings, rather than to get angry with them"

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Preparing For The Day - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 9, in which he discusses how we ought to respond on our own parts to encountering people who do wrong. 

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - The Right Response To Wrongdoers - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on three passages in book 7 which have a common theme, namely avoiding feeling anger at people who screw up (hamartein) by reminding ourselves of how and why people screw up in the ways that they do. This enables us to feel other things towards them, including pity or compassion, in place of anger.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Pity In Place Of Anger - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 4 about our capacity to withdraw into the inner space of ourselves, which gets taken along with a passage in book 8 about the inner citadel, to suggest that everyone has a calm, non-busied place within their soul. This is the case for those who have prepared such a space within them by practicing philosophy.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Retreating Into Oneself - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 2, where Marcus details a number of ways in which the soul "injures" or "degrades" (hubrizei heautēn) itself, suggesting that he and we ought to avoid those.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - The Soul Injuring Itself - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 5, in which he suggests to himself, and to us his readers, that we can engage in some productive reasoning rather than getting angry, particularly when we are dealing with people who are making mistakes or being offensive.


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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Reasoning Instead Of Getting Angry - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 9, in which he equates engaging in unjust actions of various sorts with engaging in impiety, sinning, or blaspheming.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Injustice, Sinning, And Universal Nature - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a set of passages in books 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 that deal with a common recurring theme, namely that either the universe is structured and organized providentially (the Stoic perspective), or events in the universe are causally connected but random (the Epicurean perspective). 

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Stoic Providence Or Epicurean Atoms - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 3, in which he advocates finding beauty and pleasure in even things that appear dangerous, damaged, imperfect, or incomplete within the universe

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Finding Pleasure And Beauty In Things - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 3, in which he suggests that we engage in analysis of things that we encounter in our experiences.

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Analysing Things One Encounters - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 8 which has to do with incorporating philosophy in practical ways into the scope and purposes of one's own life. This allows us to avoid falling into vainglory (kenodoxia).

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Philosophy And One's Own Life - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself)

It focuses specifically on a passage in book 11, in which Marcus sets out nine remedies for anger allegorically received from  the Muses, and then adds three more, one of them a gift from Apollo.


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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Remedies Against Anger From The Muses - Sadler's Lectures

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