/lit/ - Literature

"Why being mean is bad" by his scribe

>>15030368
Just, like, go with the flow, man...

>>15030368
A good diary desu.

a lot of it seems like he was coming to terms with his own mortality

>>15030651
I finished it today and honestly that's what I took from it mainly, which honestly I enjoyed his thoughts on death, I've always had a lot "I'll randomly die in an accident or something" anxiety

>>15030368
As the image you posted opening the trite discussion to follow aboute Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, I am guessing Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>15030695
yea, a lot of making peace with death and a lot of him making peace with life so he can spend his last years focused and not endlessly worrying about the grander problems in the world as well as the more petty day to day issues. personally i think some of it is a little too passive for younger men to get wrapped up in but there is indeed lots of great wisdom to take away from it that could help one be the best they can be

>>15030368
Reddit the book basically

>>15030368
A book people currently dislike, which once it hits a critical mass of dislike it will come into vogue again and be considered reddit to hate it.

>>15030368
A book no one on /lit/ actually read and just blindly hates because they hate stoics for som reason

>>15030368
An attempt at philosophy made by a brainlet.

>>15030368
You just read Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, a diary where he reminds himself of Stoic teachings, where he has succeded at applying them, where he's failing, etc., all of which is evident by the repetitiveness nature of the work. It was never meant to be published.
>>15030775
>>15030797
All of this kind of responses would be informative if they put some effort. However, as it stands they're useless.
>When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but of the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness.

>>15030368
not for emotional snowflakes

>>15031932
Cringe post.

I must ask the aurelius haters: who is your favorite philosopher

>>15032257
Kant

>>15032257
Abraham

>>15032264
Bro kant loved the stoics, he constantly references their teachings

>>15032257
Plato and Whitehead.