Meditations: with selected correspondence

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual reflections on how best to understand the universe and one's place within it. In short, highly charged comments, Marcus draws on Stoic philosophy to confront challenges that he felt acutely, but which are also shared by all human beings—facing the constant presence of death, making sense of one's social role, grasping the moral significance of the universe. They bring...