Now I’m starting to read Marcus Aurelius’s book Meditations. I’m interested in philosophy and I have curiosity about what an old roman emperor has to say about themes like life, the mind etc etc.
Meditations is organized in 12 books, each one of them written in different parts of Marcus Aurelius’s life. Each book is a collection of meditations, not written in chronological order and with a length from just 3-4 lines to more than 100.
But he important thing about this and the very reason I’m writing this post is that the meditations talk about different topics even in their own book. For example: in book 2 there is a meditation about the failure of reading another person’s soul and also a meditation about dying early.
Would you read this book like any other book, from start to finish? Would you use another method, like reading random meditations from a random book?
by Aston28