Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

Remember You Will Die

Marcus Aurelius’s constant meditation on death - not as morbid dread but as the discipline that strips away the trivial and presses us to live, now, with virtue.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Marcus’s practice of keeping death constantly before his mind to clarify how he should live. Fourteen centuries later, Montaigne wrote a famous essay arguing that to philosophize is to learn to die. State how Montaigne developed the theme.

Leads to Montaigne.

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