Introduction
Part I: Marcus and his Meditations
- Marcus the Stoic Philosopher
- The Meditations, a Philosophical Text
- Impressions and Judgements
- Nature and Change
- Fate and Providence
- Soul and Emotion
- Time and Death
- Virtue and Justice
- The Cosmic City
Part II: Logic
Part III: Physics
Part IV: Ethics
Conclusion
Biography
John Sellars is Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His previous books include The Art of Living, Stoicism, Hellenistic Philosophy, and Lessons in Stoicism. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition.
"On the whole, Sellars succeeds in demonstrating that Marcus’ concern with practical ethics is not divorced from a serious engagement with logic and physics. By approaching the Meditations with interpretive charity, Sellars ably illustrates how Marcus’ apparent deviations from Stoic orthodoxy are often indicative of rhetorical emphasis, rather than disagreement or misunderstanding." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
