Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

The View From Above

Marcus Aurelius’s practice of surveying human affairs from a cosmic height - shrinking our anxieties and ambitions to their true proportion against the vastness of time and space.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Marcus’s practice of viewing human affairs from a cosmic height to see them in true proportion. Fifteen centuries later, Pascal confronted the same infinite vastness but drew a very different feeling from it. State how Pascal’s response differed.

Leads to Pascal.

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