Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

Born for One Another

Marcus Aurelius’s conviction that human beings are made for cooperation - that we are limbs of one body, and that to work for the common good is to act according to our deepest nature.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Marcus’s teaching that we are made for one another and fulfilled by serving the common good. A century earlier, Cicero had given Roman political thought its classic statement of the same duty. State how Cicero framed it.

Leads to Cicero.

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