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The Inner Citadel

by Pierre Hadot

  • FINISHED
  • Finished September 2016
  • First published 1998

philosophy stoicism ancient history of philosophy

Hadot reads the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as a set of spiritual exercises rather than a system.   He explains the Stoic discipline of judgment, action and desire behind them.