Mark Aurelius. Alone with myself. Reflections

Mark Aurelius Antonin (121-180), the Roman emperor, whose personal records became a philosophical revelation for the descendants who called him the “philosopher on the throne”, was forced to spend life in military campaigns. His “thoughts” (“alone with him”) were born in 70 II century. n. e. In the camping tent. “Life struggle and wanderings in a foreign land. But what can take the path?

nothing but philosophy. Death does not have to us icon -eating when we exist, it does not exist when we are no longer existed ”(Mark Aurelius). An insightful observer endowed with rare intuition, Marcus Aurelius Antonin preached humility and asceticism. In this, his ethical views, ideas about mind and soul, turned out to be close to the teachers of the Church and influenced Christian thinkers from the blissful Jerome to L. N. Tolstoy.