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Comparing marcus aurelius and His Stoicism with Rousseau s Libertinism
marcus aurelius: What Has Been Lost
Natural law ethics were articulated by Aristotle in classical Greek philosophy and have been a mainstay of Western philosophy … rejecting the natural law and classical notion of virtue, self-restraint, and stoicism propagated by one of the greatest classical stoics to influence subsequent generations—marcus aurelius. marcus aurelius wrote the book Meditations, which is both a chronicle of different points in the Roman Emperor’s life. Divided into 12 books, Meditations is … it is a meditation on stoic philosophy—the Hellenistic school of thought founded by Zeno in Athens some four hundred years prior. Stoicism, which marcus aurelius promotes in Meditations, was based on both a logical system of personal ethics and observations of the law of the natural world. marcus aurelius and his book Meditations can be considered as important to the laying of the……
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