Meditations (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations - The Best of Philosophy in a Beautiful Hardcover Gift Edition.

Discover the world-changing ideas that have inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton in this beautiful hardcover gift edition, with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

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Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.

Covering topics such as virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods, and leadership values, this edition includes explanatory notes, a general index, an index of quotations, an index of names, and an introduction by Diskin Clay putting the work in its biographical, historical, and literary context, a chronology of Marcus Aurelius's life and career.

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