My Penguin Meditations
Introduction by - Diskin Clay
Penguin Classic : My Penguin
Paperback : 30 Nov 2006
£5.00
Synopsis
We've published seven more Classics with naked front covers and this time there's a twist... Six of the titles have been chosen by six bands and they've all done their own covers for them.
Why not design your own cover for My Penguin? You can choose from Dracula, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Lost Estate, Aesop's Fables, Animal Farm, Steppenwolf and The Great Gatsby. Not forgetting The Picture of Dorian Gray, Emma, Meditations, The Waves, Grimm's Magic Tales and Crime and Punishment.
Visit www.penguin.co.uk/mypenguin to find out more! That cover is naked, put something on it.
Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they cover such diverse topics as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods and Aurelius’s own emotions.
But while the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation, in developing his beliefs, Marcus also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a series of wise and practical aphorisms that have been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and ordinary readers for almost two thousand years.
Reviews
Customer Review: 11 January 2008
Reviewer: Alexander Pieri
Very simple thought and even if they are almost 1800 years old (less or more) they still are good concepts to think about and good advices that might seems obvious. But who in video-saturated society think about those very simple and yet marvelous mindthrought? I recommend to anyone interested in philosophy and to anyone that is searching for something that is not the way of Buddha or some Indian meditation way of life. dont complain about Buddha or Indian Hindu philosophy, but here, MArcus Aurelius has, as Plato, had interesting thought about our most simple things in our everyday life. This is us. Read it.. Sorry my english writing. Alex, Croatia.
