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🗓️ 30 November 2023
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Summary
In Book 7 of Meditations, Marcus writes to himself (as the Gregory Hays translation, which you can grab a special edition of here, has it):
"Take care that you don't treat inhumanity as it treats human beings."
What does that mean? What exactly does Marcus mean by “inhumanity”? Hurricanes are inhuman. ChatGPT is inhuman. They might be ruthless forces of nature or technology, but they’re not out to get human beings. Does it matter how you treat them? With a passage like this, it is helpful to, as we’ve done a few times now, look at various translations.
In his great annotated edition of Meditations, Robin Waterfield translated that same passage like this:
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