![]() He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophy developed by others. ![]() He never thought of himself as a philosopher. Yet the title is one that Marcus himself would surely have rejected. And indeed, if we seek Plato’s philosopher-king in the flesh we could hardly do better than Marcus, the ruler of the Roman Empire for almost two decades and author of the immortal Meditations. Marcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarely been able to resist applying it to Marcus himself. States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. # Introduction by Gregory Hays ↑ # Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ↑ # Chronology ↑ Chronological overview of Roman emperor and philosophers B.C.
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