The two volumes of this work provide the first comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. The central thesis is that a particular combination of form and content is characteristic of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. He wrote the earliest extant self-dialogue, whereby the composition of the mainly contemplative text can at the same time be a kind of Stoic philosophical practice.
Volume 1 analyses general characteristics of form and their philosophical significance.
Volume 2 analyses the themes, terms and arguments in analogy to the Stoic division of the philosophy.
Marcel van Ackeren
Philosophie Stoa Marc Aurel Antike Klassische Philologie Philosophy Marcus Aurelius Antiquity Classical Philology