I would like to express my deep gratitude by uploading this audio book. I'm studying English and being able to listen to the reading in a human voice while I read the book is of great value to me. Thank you so much.

"Didn't get absorbed by logic chopping" - wonderful. So many forget that the purpose of philosophy is to be a guide to living well, and instead make it into a theater by which they can name drop and show off their alleged intellects.

I always carry this book with me and I read it everyday over and over again. I love this book soo much. It is my bible.

my self, what i am. another living creature, i what i am is the result of all the things i learn and the experiences, my personality, is sustained by solitude , and sometimes loneliness,especially when it is about the way we are, and we always been this way, but now we are about 7 billion people, poverty and misery, and especially ignorance, most is excessive and deficient, it is a bad trip, i see Mr marcus in another times in different conditions and many other philosophers, with good guidance

My favorite book already. I always have it with me. Blown away!

as a human i grew up and found other creatures alike, i couldn't handle loneliness, i could handle resentment, and especially i couldn't handle fear. i read few philosophers and i couldn't be non of them.... I like most of the ones i've been reading, i am non of them..... i like them very much and i wish i was something with such a clarity, guided, i couldn't. i grew up out of my family, occasionally i saw them, i am still my self ; resenful, emotional, lost, disoriented, goofy, affectionate.

His error, as I argue in my thesis, was not in raising a poor child. He made every effort to raise his son properly, including hiring the best tutors possible and surrounding him in official business. His real fault was breaking the adoptive cycle of emperorship - the prior 4 emperors were elected on merit, not on family relations. Commodus was not the best man to rule, but was still elected by Marcus. In truth Commodus was a sociopath - doing what sociopaths inevitably do.

@johnmiller7453

6 жыл бұрын

How could a father not notice a son was a psychopath? Especially someone so awake and aware. I find that completely suspicious and has cast doubt in my mind about the totally quality of MA. I'm sorry but he seems like a fool.

@linkexe8786

2 жыл бұрын

from my understanding Marcus was the only emperor that had a surviving son. That's why all the others did the adoption cycle. Marcus did what any father what have done at the time, and probably would do now. I mean how many billionaires have they sociopathic children take over their families money (power) regardless of how well they can handle that power?

Thank you very much for uploading this. This is the one work that always teaches me something new.

This is great. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

Outstanding philosophy. The lessons will transform you into such a better human being and your senses are refreshed during and after the reading of meditations.

Thank you for posting

I finished reading the Wordsworth edition of 'meditations' or 'thoughts' today. Wisdom and power are rare.

thanks for posting this!

thank you very much for posting this video

Great words and nice job by the narrator

Thanks for doin this brother!

Holy cow 14 years ago uploaded

very well done thanks for sharing

Thank you.

wow this sounds great. i must borrow this at my local library over the summer.

@tanit I got the George Long copy, I think it may be the best... George Long seems to translate all of it, while the Penguin Classics and other versions of it leaves out a few parts of it. Marcus Aurelius was a true philosopher and he enlightened me greater than many other philosophers that I read ever since I started to study philosophy.

Wonderful

a great one indeed.. :))

Ave!

Just do a search on amazon - there are many full editions available.

Same here.

Commodus was groomed for succession by Aurelius in haste because Aurelius saw an uprising in the east by a general named Avidius. Marcus gave Commodus the "toga of manhood" when preparations were made against Avidius (securing a successor, if worst came to worst), though Avidius was soon assassinated. Commodus remained Marcus' choice, though Marcus did not forsee his son's futue indolence. Commodus was an example of why people raised in the palace, like Nero before him, were unfit for rule.

well spoken

The religions where practically interchangable as far as the gods were concerned,Greece was a province of Rome but heavily influenced the social and cultural life of Romans.But the essence of the book is to be found in the lessons on life on the way to live it,the true way to live a productive and happy life in my opinion:).

The unique thing about this was it was never intended to be public but his personal writings only later discovered by chance ... is that accurate ?

❤

I appreciate your work but I would suggest you to remove the background noise using some software like audacity.

You Guys you should read Athanasius of Alexandria !

Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE

If either are you interested in this topic you should check out my BA thesis, I put the link in the video description.

i would have to agree

Meditations are perhaps the only document of this type ever produced. They are the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world who advises himself on how to fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of his offices. Meditations Book by Marcus Aurelius (PDF-Summary-Review-Quotes-Online Reading-Download): www.toevolution.com/file/view/540034/meditations-book-by-marcus-aurelius-pdf-summary-review-quotes-online-reading-download

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays translation, Modern Library (May 6, 2003), ISBN-10: 0812968255

The whole Commodus thing has always made me wonder. We can consider Marcus to be one of the greatest people, and yet he was unable to raise a good child, and this failure alone caused great harm to the empire. I wonder if raising a family requires skills which lie outside of philosophy and logic.

@frater7576

7 жыл бұрын

Marcus Aurelius alone cannot be blamed for this, other things in his enviroment had a great effect on him, like the deification of his deceased brother but biology played a part as well, which was beyond Marcus' control.

@curtbusch1428

6 жыл бұрын

You don't sound like a parent. All my kids are great in their own right, yet each completely different. And raised by the same parents in the same style. You NEVER can predict. In fact, many many children turn out completely different than their parents. You may have heard the term; 'they skip a generation'? He did what he thought was his absolute best. I would have killed to have had Commodus' upbringing. If Marcus had had a bunch of children, you might have seen one or several of them exhibit more of his leadership traits. Also; I look at the gobs of positives this man unleashed on his empire and the world over the last few thousand years - not this blemished fraction of his life.

Scipio of the Republican era was very good. Marius reforms of the army also where very good. Now the Republican era arguably saw the three greatest threats to Rome in a very short space of time - Carthage, then the Crimbi & Teutons & from the East the greek kingdoms.

What edition of the book is this? What translation?

@curtbusch1428

6 жыл бұрын

Translation done by Gregory Hayes. The best I've seen so far. Like regular, modern writing you might read from a book written yesterday - not 1900 years ago. All the other translations [even modern day ones] sound like a Shakespeare play, or someone reading the Bible.

most of us are just teachable, or not? we find something in life, some consolation to the bad and hard times, most of us wish to have a good time, we are made it of habits, like the horse that loves running and feel freedom, don't want to win, there is just pleasure, (want to be the best LOL LOL.compete...), booh! just plain pleasure in seeing thegreen color of the grass, and the yellow leaves of the gingko, when the winter rain falls see the blue sky and not to think, but contemplatew/pleasure

Am I supposed to listen to this as I'm meditating??."... Or is he just reading a book.??."... And I'm just supposed to "Listen."?...

@tanit

9 жыл бұрын

It is difficult/impossible to meditate while listening to any audio which is structured and complex - such as a reading. I'm just reading. What's better is if you listen to act on the listening.

@Nativehustler21

9 жыл бұрын

Thanx there dude buddy....

@johnmiller7453

6 жыл бұрын

It's MA who is meditating on his beliefs. You get to just listen.

@curtbusch1428

6 жыл бұрын

They are HIS meditations. You are essentially listening to an audiobook of what he wrote. He never even wanted his writings published. That was done after his death.

@littlebrighousebsc2225

6 жыл бұрын

Meditation: (noun) a written or spoken discourse expressing considered thoughts on a subject. You are listening to the Diary of Marcus Aurelius, which was later turn into what is known as the book of Meditations The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but himself.

IT wasn't one man which lead to the decline of the Empire, it was a general decline in the intellectuals habits of the aristocracy. Stoicism - which had guided the hands of the Five Good Emperors, became forgotten by the third century during the "Crisis of the Third Century." Most of the emperors during the third century were despots, there was no ONE major madman which contributed to problems.

you read this with a vengeance.

@infokemp - the Roman Republic war argueable Rome at it's best. The Empire expanded more as a Republic and dealt with many great threats from within and without. Rome should have gone back to the Republican system after Aurelius...but then if it did it might still be around, Europe might be pagan, much learning destroyed by the Christians might still be with us and we might be a few centuries more advanced. It's fun to speculate the "what ifs"!

His former emperor Antoninus.... did him no good in the affairs of military experience......he was not prepped as others before him awaiting to wear the purple....he was not given military honors nor legions to command....he had to learn on the go.

Huh?

cant fucking listen with this quality

@curtbusch1428

6 жыл бұрын

It was free, bro. Make your own.