Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

A Book Written to Oneself

The strange and singular nature of the Meditations - a private journal of self-counsel never meant for any reader - and what it teaches about writing as a tool of self-mastery.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that the Meditations were Marcus’s private exercise in writing to himself, a tool of self-examination and self-mastery. Two centuries later, Augustine turned self-examination into a new literary form - the Confessions, addressed to God. State how Augustine transformed the practice.

Leads to Augustine.

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