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Often appears with: the fear of death · stoic view of time and repetition · soul and body · nature of the rational soul · justice as a virtue · justice and social duty · acceptance of death
Usually: argument (1) · confronting death (1) · exhortation (1) · reverence (1)
Marcus Aurelius argues that the rational soul is self-aware, self-governing, and can complete itself even when life ends, then concludes that justice—loving one’s neighbor—should be humanity’s chief goal.
THE ELEVENTH BOOK I. The natural properties, and privileges of a reasonable soul are: That she seeth herself; that she can order, and compose herself: that she makes herself as she will herself: that she reaps her own fruits whatsoever, whereas plants, trees, unreasonable creatures, what fruit soever (be it either fruit properly, or analogically only) they bear, they bear them unto others, and not to themselves. Aga…