The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Paperback)

from StephenBarkley

This volume was interesting, enlightening, but profoundly frustrating. Let's start with interesting. Most Christians have little or no idea how much of their belief system is founded on Platonic and Stoic principles in place of Judaism. Reading these works helped me to see the extent of the damag...

from StephenBarkley

This volume was interesting, enlightening, but profoundly frustrating. Let's start with interesting. Most Christians have little or no idea how much of their belief system is founded on Platonic and Stoic principles in place of Judaism. Reading these works helped me to see the extent of the damag...

from gbanville

As Hegel had it, the two great philosophers of stoicism were an emperor and a slave, respectively.

from Tahlil77

This was, so far, one of my favorite reads in the Harvard Classics collection that I've amassed. The dialects of Plato were wonderfull, and the sayings of the ex-slave Epictetus were amazing for their sense of praticality and resignation in relation to our lives...even today. Marcus Aurelius' med...

from Tahlil77

This was, so far, one of my favorite reads in the Harvard Classics collection that I've amassed. The dialects of Plato were wonderfull, and the sayings of the ex-slave Epictetus were amazing for their sense of praticality and resignation in relation to our lives...even today. Marcus Aurelius' med...