We're all gonna make it

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Anyone reading this: I urge you, I beg of you, to read Aurelius’ meditations. There are tons of PDFs online for free. It may be the single most elevating and inspiring pieces of literature you will ever read.

Take the outdoors/bomb-pill

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What's with this meme rise in stoicism. I see it all over Reddit and I hear it all over here. It's brainlet philosophy.
>lol we're all gonna die get used to it
>don't give a fuck about what you can't control
It's like feel-good spiritualism without the commitment of Christianity or another religion.

Also, daily reminder Aurelius was a noob practitioner and not actually making and strides in the development of the philosophy itself.

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I lift for satsuki

Amen!

>Also, daily reminder Aurelius was a noob practitioner and not actually making and strides in the development of the philosophy itself.
He never meant for his work to be published, he wrote those private notes for himself to mull over.
Plus, of course he didn’t make huge bounds in philosophy, he was busy being the fucking emperor of Rome.

>all the best parts of religion
>without all the useless meme guilt or worship
sounds pretty good

What does it mean inadmisability?

it means he's a nazi

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If you are open for that kind of mindset, Chapter 1 is already a huge boost and improvement.
That was an enlightment the first time.

like that green frog?

His only fault is that he failed to raise a suitable heir

Link? Or is it on Google?
>t. 30 year old boomer

It's a book, user.

Or was it really? It was the wish of his wife, and the honourable thing was to be loyal to her.
He also did want to appoint another person to co-rule with Commodus, but he got murdered before he was able to do so.

proper education through pagan ideals

>if not for Plato we wouldnt know shit about Socrates
too based

It's supposed to be Socrates. The original quotation is given by Xenophon in "Memorabilia".

>[Socrates has listed the disadvantages of poor physical condition.] [3.12.7] ... And surely a man of sense would submit to anything to obtain the effects that are the opposite of those mentioned in my list. [3.12.8] Besides, it is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

>[3.12.7] .... kαίτοι τῶν γε τοῖς εἰρημένοις ἐναντίων ἕνεkα τί οὐk ἄν τις νοῦν ἔχων ὑπομείνειεν; [3.12.8] αἰσχρὸν δὲ kαὶ τὸ διὰ τὴν ἀμέλειαν γηρᾶναι, πρὶν ἰδεῖν ἑαυτὸν ποῖος ἂν kάλλιστος kαὶ kράτιστος τῷ σώματι γένοιτο·

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Memus Aurelius is pure garbage. He's the Jeb Bush of Roman history. Faced with a bloated, multicultural, exhausted shit heap of an empire his solution is to just accept it as eternal reality and sacrifice for muh greater good of largely shit quality people. The Roman motto in its early days was "War and Leisure". Rome existed for its aristocracy to fight cool wars and produce works of great beauty. Faggots like Mr. Reddit meme philosopher here flipped that on its head and wasted what was left of Roman greatness on managing and defending the dipshits that their ancestors had conquered. There is a reason that Sparta never had a large empire and declared war on their slave class every year.

Commodus on the other hand was a true patrician. He inherited shitworld from his dopey dad and chose a superior life of exquisite degeneracy and letting the world burn all around him over being self sacrificing dopey retard the 2nd.

How were the ancients so knowledgeable on stuff that today goes completely over our heads?

they weren't christians

They were sane. The subhuman masses are either so sick that they cannot live without what makes them sick (attached) or so stupid and obstinate that they cannot conceive of anything else (ignorant)

corporations that make money off of people being unhealthy didnt exist

Wow, what garbage we see hear. Please share with us stories of your own conquests and teach us how to live. Go back to jerking off and playing vidya you absolute faggot.

>dude its better to sit around and talk a bunch of bullshit than it is to actually accomplish things

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>It was the wish of his wife, and the honourable thing was to be loyal to her.
How could one man (you) be so unbased

>He's the Jeb Bush of Roman history

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Now this an extremely low quality post.

>Also, daily reminder Aurelius was a noob practitioner
That’s exactly why his meditations are revered. These are writings of a dude just doing his best which makes it so much more accessible to your average person than the majority of philiosophical texts.

The best modern philosopher

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this

They had a lot more time to sit around and think these things through with a lot less distractions. Also, these guess we're peering into uncharted territory. It's easy to come up with groundbreaking stuff in a field relatively untouched

He considered how to be a good man daily, constantly challenging himself to be a better one

Because he considered such frivolity to be a waste of time that could be spent improving himself and his rule

why is it always ameridumbs that make these abhorrend post?

Marcus Aurelius is like Jeb Bush. Shure mah man happy 9/11

leave

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I have a feeling you'd like better

How many philosophers were there for every common peasant? Ask yourself that before you idealize the past.

He really was. Damn

>dont give a fuck about what you can't control
What's the issue with this? Almost every aspect of an individuals life can be controlled by the individual. That being said i assume ur getting at the land-whales blaming >muh genetics.

>ancient e-statting

>Only deadlifts 480kg

Kek, dyel fag

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Nah bro, that’s just the power of eating onions all day.

That's the Achilles heel of inherited leadership, every single time, it's not a personal fault of his.

What if a man cuts out your tongue and cuts off your hands? What then, Marcus?

Yeah, but inherited leadership wasn’t the norm in Rome. Marcus kinda forced it to happen, although like said earlier there was supposed to be a co-heir but he died early.

That kinda falls to Epictetus’ view of stoicism: he argued that our body is not under our command, only our thoughts and actions are truly ours.

That's why they usually didn't do a direct line of succession in Rome. The emperor would adopt his successor once he picked a good one.

A shitton more than now for sure

"But if you feel yourself falling away and losing control, retire in good heart to some corner where you will regain control - or else make a complete exit from life, not in anger, but simply, freely, with integrity, making this leaving of it at least one achievement in your life." - Marcus Aurelius

"Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It’s right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists" - Seneca

"Remember that the door is open. Don’t be more cowardly than children, but just as they say, when the game is no longer fun for them, ‘I won’t play any more,’ you too, when things seem that way to you, say, ‘I won’t play any more,’ and leave, but if you remain, don’t complain." - Epictetus

tl;dr kill yourself

Epictetus actively recommended against suicide, you're misinterpreting his statement.

t. Hasn't read the book

No he didn't. He said you should not take the route too quickly, but it is certainly an option.

The things that passed on for thousands of years were the ones worth passing. The average person was burning witches and worshipping sky daddy back then.

What does it mean then

>burning witches
not ancient times
>worshipping sky daddy
Today's religion is even worse with all the discriminations and rules in it, please

>He fell for the enlightenment revisionment meme that the ancients were all dumb and religion held back scientific progress

Because we dug too deep and now everything is relative. If you uproot yourself from "basic truths" then you can't derive any meaning, you need some place to start from.

>faggot talking shit about “THE GREATEST” EMP EVER
HE DIDNT CALL HIMSELF THAT
EVERYONE ELSE DID

>Work your mindless drone job and like it and don't ever question why I'm Emperor exclusively by chance of birth

Marcus Aurelius a shit

Though at least now I know where The Rock got the whole "KNOW YOUR ROLE" catchphrase from.

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Do not fucking do this. It's a load of shit and you'll turn into that puppet proselytizing this philosophical bullshit on boards that are supposed to be for physical training.

It's like Nietzsche for turbo brainlets.

>No qt Milana gf

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Well, let's be honest lad, Aurelius is an interesting read on the basis that it's an insight directly into the mind of whom many consider to the greatest Roman empire (debatable). One can take away a number of gems from the collection as a whole and saying that one shouldn't read it is just petty

>The average person was burning witches and worshipping sky daddy back then.

Oh man. The more things change, huh?

It’s a good first step into philosophy for many guys, don’t hate Aurelius just because some people read him and become pretentious assholes.

Actually read Epictetus' Enchiridion first, then read Aurelius' Meditations afterwards if you want more.

All right, read it, just don't buy into it. With a healthy dose of skepticism, seeing all the ways the guy was full of shit might actually be educational.

But don't forget opportunity cost. You could be lifting, sleeping, playing rugby, reading something BETTER (Wealth of Nations, Capitalism and Freedom, The Law, For A New Liberty, Democracy: The God That Failed, any Pearls Before Swine compilation), etc, instead of reading Aurelius' masturbation notes.

why does he have steampunk gloves?

>The bronze Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his caestus, a type of leather hand-wrap. It has been given various dates within the period of about 330 to 50 BCE. It was excavated in Rome in 1885, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Rome, normally displayed in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. The Boxer at Rest is one of the finest examples of bronze sculptures to have survived from the ancient world; survivals from the period are rare, as they were easily melted down and transformed into new objects. The work comes from a period in Greek art where there is a movement away from idealised heroic depictions of the body and youth, and an exploration of emotional themes and greater realism.

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I share a board with people like you

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Libgen.io

>his name means "good boob"

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Without attention to those lower than you

>>Work your mindless drone job and like it and don't ever question why I'm Emperor exclusively by chance of birth
confirmed for not heaving read the book

based and redpilled

Plato was a wrestler and it's been theorized that "Plato" wasn't really his name but a nickname, which almost literally translates to "The Rock'"

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>Also, daily reminder Aurelius was a noob practitioner and not actually making and strides in the development of the philosophy itself.

No problem with that. Aurelius is a good start. He's a big over-rated, as Marky Mark is ALL that anyone reads. Epictetus and Seneca are more in depth. Cicero's Stoic and Stoic inspired works are worth reading too.

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>How were the ancients so knowledgeable on stuff that today goes completely over our heads?

They got people really well. I wouldn't trust their views on atoms or high end physics. They lacked the equipment to do that right. But they studied people and got them right. My general stance is that there's no better life philosophies as outlines by the Buddhists, Christians, Hellenic philosophers.

later advancements in phil focused on how to better run socities, but then we lost the human part. We sort of just relinquished that to religions while the "serious philosophers" tackled very abstract problems.

People need guidance and guidelines for their life. Ancients can give that.

>This dude would bitch endlessly on /v/ about shitty teammates in shooters if he were alive now.