MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
Meditations
- Listening time
- about 7 h 42 min
- Length
- 71,957 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 180
- Edition
- Public-domain text, cleaned for narration
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- 399 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
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The Stoics regarded speculation as a means to an end and that end was, as Zeno put it, to live consistently (ὁμολογουμένος ζῆν), or as it was later explained, to live in conformity with nature (ὁμολογουμένος τῇ φύσει ζῆν). This conforming of the life to nature was the Stoic idea of Virtue. This dictum might easily be taken to mean that virtue consists in yielding to each natural impulse; but that was very far from the Stoic meaning.
Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
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