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Books : Meditations (Penguin Classics)In association with Amazon.comby: Marcus Aurelius  List Price: $10.00 Amazon.com's Price: $8.00 You Save: $2.00 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 188 EAN: 9780140449334 ISBN: 0140449337 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: October 31, 2006 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 7710 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A new translation of the philosophical journey that has inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton Written by an intellectual Roman emperor, the Meditations offer a wide range of spiritual reflections developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and the universe. Marcus Aurelius covers topics as diverse as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods, and his own emotions, spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation. * Includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes, general index, index of quotations, and index of names Amazon.com Review: One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation--as a self-help book--is not only valid, but may be close to the author's intent. The book, which Hays calls, fondly, a "haphazard set of notes," is indicative of the role of philosophy among the ancients in that it is "expected to provide a 'design for living.'" And it does, both aphoristically ("Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.") and rhetorically ("What is it in ourselves that we should prize?"). Whether these, and other entries ("Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life.") sound life-changing or like entries in a teenager's diary is up to the individual reader, as it should be. Hays's introduction, which sketches the life of Marcus Aurelius (emperor of Rome A.D. 161-180) as well as the basic tenets of stoicism, is accessible and jaunty. --H. O'Billovich Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Profound!I bought this a couple of years ago and my copy is full of markings and is getting quite ragged now! I never find a situation upon which this wise man did not speak. Very nice work! I do know a fair bit of Greek but I have still enjoyed Prof. Hays' translation. I'd recommend a copy to every young graduate you know! Rating: - Emperor of Rome and himselfIf you think you cannot have at the same time a complicated job and peace of spirit, if you think your job is too demanding, if you think your house is a chaos that inevitably makes your nerves explode...if you think some of that, then you should read Marcus Aurelius Meditations. He was for twenty years emperor of one of the largest empires that have ever existed, dealing with intrigues, Rome, wars at the borders....and he was also a master of himself, living in ... Read More Rating: - The Hays translation: interesting and readable.Those turned off by older translations of "Meditations" containing all the "thys" and "thous" (as I was) need wait no longer....Gregory Hays has saved the day. This is an excellent and very readable version of the ancient Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius' personal notebooks and musings, and it can be extremely valuable to the inner seeker. Personal responsiblity in every aspect of life is emphasized, as is the acceptance of death and the position that we are free to leave this ... Read More Rating:  - Awful version of the MeditationsHere is what Gregory Hays, this translator, wrote: 1. MY GRANDFATHER VERSUS. Character and self-control. This is choppy. These are sentence fragments. Here is how Maxwell Staniforth translated the same passage in the Meditations: 1. Courtesy and serenity of temper I first learnt to know from my grandfather Versus. Heres another verse from Hays: 2. MY FATHER (FROM MY OWN MEMORIES AND HIS REPUTATION). Integrity and manliness. From Staniforth: 2. Manliness ... Read More Rating: - Wisdom from the Emperor-Philosopher"Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible." ~ Marcus Aurelius from "Meditations" Not only is Marcus Aurelius one of my heroes, he's also one of history's leading Stoic Philosophers. Stoic philosophy. You know, one of the classic Hellenistic philosophies--right there with Epicureanism and Cynicism. Huh? ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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