Life is like a river. You never step in the same river twice. That is a profound thought.

@user-br7fi3dn3l

Ай бұрын

Marcus Aurelius parroting Heraclitus here. The Stoics owe a lot to his ideas and insights.

this video doesnt teach or talk about how to read it. save your time. click bait titles. how to read it..start at the beginning and work your way towards the end. if you dont grasp something immediately. give it another chance some other time. thats how ive read it. and ive read it about 5 times in the last year.

@dodoswrld

Ай бұрын

yeah it’s an advertisement lol

@tanmay6207

Ай бұрын

Brilliant advice that's also how I read the book

Great meditation to start the day- I carry Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" in my car to remind me that I am responsible for things that I can control- frees up a sense of prohairesis .

Glad you uploaded this just the right time

I love the Meditations and wisdom within it has helped me tremendously through life's struggles, but the greatest book ever written is the Holy Bible.

Dude, you’ve got such a beautiful versions of the stoic books. Hardbound leather with gold pages. Please provide links for those gorgeous copies. I want to have a beautiful bookshelf of Stoic Classics.

Ordered Meditations and course - looking forward to it!

@Mac-StayTrue

14 күн бұрын

Whats course?

Going to the comment section after reading the title. This ought to be good!

Thank you

Do you prefer Meditations or Letters from a Stoic? Obviously both from different individuals but I'm always curious of which is a better read. I own Meditations but still deciding if I should also purchase Letters. Thanks for the content.

I bough the fancy book but the font was really small and had to buy the classic version. All good, that one will be a display version but make note for future release on making the font a bit larger 🙏

Epictetus 's Meditations or Enchiridion is even better.

Dude, I'm doing the Bible in a year podcast. Would love to see a similar thing with this.

@seekabs

Ай бұрын

He actually has a Daily Stoic audiobook which may be just what you’re looking for. It’s a 366 “chapter/entry” audiobook.

Where can I purchase this version of the book? (Hardcover with this design)

does someone know what the background music used in the video is? thank you

Actually another way to know how to read it, is to also read Donald Robertsons "How to think like a Roman emperor." The book interpret Meditations on some level too.

I brought what Ryan suggested to be the definitive version of meditations aka Gregory hates version and the introduction so tedious I simply just skipped most and started off with reading debts and lessons. Originally read the book app version almost a year ago but it didn’t really feel right

"Overshoot" by William Catton is the greatest book ever written.

What about Letters form a stoic?

I developed more appreciation and more interest in Meditations after reading Epictetus.

I have this book but dont know what to practice first btw really it is more worthful than any other book by saying any other book I mean it does remind you of the most important tasks of your life and keep you on THE RIGHT track like I think It is about perception of anyone everyone has their own idea for everything so I think in my own perception it really is maybe not the greatest book but one of the most important books

@johnnyregs2378

Ай бұрын

Hopefully it teaches you to use punctuation.

@gursahib1256

Ай бұрын

@@johnnyregs2378 what are you trying to say I did not understood did I offended someone 😞

@darrendowdell3731

Ай бұрын

@@johnnyregs2378 One of the ideas Marcus puts across is not to be so quick to correct others as they may not have had the same background as you. Why not put that into practice?

I have a little problem I am a spanish speaker

Ive been trying to read just 5 pages a day but its so difficult, i dont know if its just the version i have but i find it to be so incredibly wordy that i just zone out.

@ismailzabiullah811

Ай бұрын

Read meditations by Marcus Aurelius translated by gregory hays. This version is very popular and written in simple language

@johnnyregs2378

Ай бұрын

@@ismailzabiullah811 thank you I'll check that out.

@michaelriera6277

Ай бұрын

Have the same version and it’s fantastic

@williamw404

Ай бұрын

I hear you, John. My suggestion is to go smaller. Bite off a page a day. That's plenty to think about. Best wishes.

Good idea? Perhaps it's for you. Perhaps not. Problem with the pitch here, the animator portrays Marcus Aurelius as more a statue than a living breathing human being. His meditations provide a route to becoming more human and more humane. Thus we shouldn't imagine him as statue-like--immobile, on a pedestal, or like the Commendatore in Don Giovanni, a statue come (half) to life. Instead, he should use your imagination to see him as a man of flesh and blood, of strengths and weaknesses, of insights and blind spots (not so nice when it came to throwing people to the lions). Like him for his ideals.

Am I missing something? When I clicked on it I didn't see anything about a book club. It was just a book that was for sale?

It is not the greatest book ever written, it's almost not even a book, it's a diary that repeats the same problems over and over again. Aurelius would be rolling his eyes. It's an important artifact of history.

@johnk7147

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@hman2912

Ай бұрын

Agreed. Hard to read, but some pearls of wisdom and interesting to see into someone else's mind.

@parapeciarz7472

Ай бұрын

last time I checked he was an expert on meditations and not you, but if I'm wrong correct me

@nevertellmethaoddz8581

Ай бұрын

We’re all entitled to our opinion

@Kimomaru

Ай бұрын

@@nevertellmethaoddz8581 Yes. Except when it's objectively false. Then it's just a dumb claim.

How does A.I. change philosophy in the future , if so ?

@ferris194

Ай бұрын

Well, AI is trained on a given dataset, so it will only recite what was already written out, and at best "mix" things up which people think is "new and created by the AI". Therefore Ideas generated by AI may look new but in the core nothing really new will come up other than by humans

Just a thought “who are new and current philosophers in this recent age ?”

Might as well read the Tao Te Ching

You cant call IT the best book

@dontbeacoconut

Ай бұрын

Agreed, Stephen King has written way better stories.

@44scoots

Ай бұрын

He called it the Greatest Book.

@kalenakai6808

Ай бұрын

Sure he can. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions whether you agree or not.

sales pitch

You should look up how Marcus Aurelius dealt with his unfaithful wife. It's not what most people would consider stoic lol. Quite barbaric, actually.

@krumbergify

Ай бұрын

Don’t get to close to your idols. You will see that they are real people, not superheroes and you will get disappointed - unless you realize that they are just people.

The greatest book ever written is a book called the Holy Bible... praise Jesus!!

the bible

@mr.bnatural3700

Ай бұрын

Great work of fiction!

@davidmitchell6873

Ай бұрын

I prefer non fiction myself.

@joanwebster6378

Ай бұрын

​@@mr.bnatural3700Recent archaeological and geological studies of the ancient world are correlating history with Biblical accounts.

Repent and believe in the Gospel, there is only one Gospel and to believe any others is a sin. Beware of false prophets - Glory be to God ❤

@davidmitchell6873

Ай бұрын

You are the greatest example of a false prophet.

@boagski

Ай бұрын

The Catholic Church is surely a false prophet? Yeah? With all the children and cover ups ?

It's a good book I read it and learned from it but the greatest book is the Quran

@johnnyregs2378

Ай бұрын

A book of lies and stories about pedophilia and rape? Weird choice man