Tag: Marcus Aurelius

  • The Discipline of Consent: Who We Are According to the Stoics

    The Discipline of Consent: Who We Are According to the Stoics

    An emperor writing in his tent on the Danube frontier, trying to remind himself of what he already knows. A former slave dictating philosophy from a small house in Nicopolis, having survived torture and exile with his equanimity intact. A wealthy senator and playwright composing letters about poverty and death from one of the most…