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The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Pierre Hadot

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today--as they have been over the centuries--as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient religion and philosophy. Yet the clarity an...

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The Daily Stoic

The Inner Citadel is a book about Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, described as a series of spiritual exercises.

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In Pierre Hedot's fascinating book on Meditations called The Inner Citadel, he describes this as a series of spiritual exercises.

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The Inner Citadel is a book about Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, described as a series of spiritual exercises.

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In Pierre Hedot's fascinating book on Meditations called The Inner Citadel, he describes this as a series of spiritual exercises.

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The book, a translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, was highly recommended by the speaker. The speaker highlighted that this translation offered a unique perspective on the original text.

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you should read that book too

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Hadot reinterprets Marcus Aurelius's Meditations as spiritual exercises rather than philosophical treatises, emphasizing their personal nature and application.

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this guy said that basically almost all the study of ancient philosophy gets it wrong that we're thinking about the ideas we're thinking about the writing we're thinking about the theory when in fact what philosophy was was a series of spiritual exercises notes discussions with the self about how to solve problems of life

marcus really wasn't making philosophy for you he was philosophizing to himself

Episode: Yes, This Is How It Is | The Obstacle Is The Way

The speaker described it as a book containing Hadot's own translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, which he praised. He specifically recommended reading an excerpt within this book.

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I'm a big fan of Pierre Hadoo in his book The Intercedado which I carried the paint of Portugal into today's episode. But Hadoo does his own translation of meditations which has not been published except for the excerpts in the book and there's a really good one inside the intercedado which you should read.

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