In this new study, John Sellars offers a fresh examination of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as a work of philosophy by placing it against the background of the tradition of Stoic philosophy to which Marcus was committed.

John Sellars is Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His previous books include The Art of Living, Stoicism, Hellenistic Philosophy, and Lessons in Stoicism. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition.

Introduction; Part I: Marcus and his Meditations; 1. Marcus the Stoic philosopher; 2. The Meditations, a philosophical text; Part II: Logic; 3. Impressions and judgements; Part III: Physics; 4. Nature and change; 5. Fate and providence; 6. Soul and emotion; 7. Time and death; Part IV: Ethics; 8. Virtue and justice; 9. The cosmic city; Conclusion