Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor from 161-180 CE who wrote Meditations as private philosophical reflections
Marcus Aurelius is considered the last of the Five Good Emperors and a philosopher-king
Stoicism
The ancient Greek philosophy that Marcus Aurelius practiced emphasizing virtue reason and acceptance
Stoicism teaches that we control only our judgments and responses not external events
Logos
The rational principle governing the universe which humans share through reason
Logos connects individual reason to universal order making humans part of cosmic rationality
Virtue
The highest good in Stoic philosophy consisting of wisdom justice courage and temperance
For Stoics virtue is the only true good and sufficient for happiness regardless of circumstances
Dichotomy of Control
The Stoic distinction between what is in our power (judgments choices) and what is not (externals)
This principle teaches focusing only on what we can control and accepting what we cannot
Cosmopolitanism
The Stoic view that all humans are citizens of one world community
Cosmopolitanism emphasizes our shared rational nature and duties to all humanity
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