The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (2008)
This influential classical work offered a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things. In their account of the life of the emperor, prefaced to their translation from the Greek, Hutcheson and Moor celebrated the Stoic ideal of an orderly universe governed by a benevolent God. They contrasted the serenity recommended and practiced by Marcus Aurelius with the divisive sectarianism then exhibited by their fellow Presbyterians in Scotland and elsewhere. They urged their readers and fellow citizens to set aside their narrow prejudices.
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, trans. Francis Hutcheson and James Moor, edited and with an Introduction by James Moore and Michael Silverthorne (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008).
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- Author: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- Editor: Michael Silverthorne
- Editor: James Moore
- Translator: James Moor
- Translator: Francis Hutcheson
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. : Hutcheson and Moor: The Division of Responsibility
- 2.: The Glasgow Edition in Context: Other Editions and Influences
- 3.: The Significance of the Annotations
- 4.: Hutcheson and Christianity
- 5.: The Meditations in the Scottish Enlightenment
- A NOTE ON THE TEXT
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE MEDITATIONS OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
- INTRODUCTION Containing some of the MOST MEMORABLE PASSAGES, Preserv’d, of the Life of the EMPEROR MARCUS ANTONINUS.
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- BOOK IX
- BOOK X
- BOOK XI
- BOOK XII
- ERRATA*
- MAXIMS OF THE STOICS
- I: Of GOD, Providence, and* the Love of GOD.
- II: Of Man; and the social duties and affection to men, as, by nature, our kinsmen.
- GATAKER’s APOLOGY
- ENDNOTES
- Editors’ Notes to Hutcheson and Moor’s Life of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus
- Editors’ Notes to Marcus’s Text and to Hutcheson and Moor’s Notes
- BOOK I
- BOOK II
- BOOK III
- BOOK IV
- BOOK V
- BOOK VI
- BOOK VII
- BOOK VIII
- BOOK IX
- BOOK X
- BOOK XI
- BOOK XII
- Editors’ Notes to Maxims of the Stoics
- Editors’ Notes to Gataker’s Apology
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Editions of The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by Francis Hutcheson and James Moor and Published in Glasgow by Robert and Andrew Foulis and in Dublin for Robert Main
- Other Editions of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Referred to in the Notes to This Edition
- Other Works Referred to in the Text and Notes