HoP 067 - The Philosopher King - Marcus Aurelius
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Peter Adamson
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2012
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you? |
| 0:02.0 | Do you do. |
| 0:04.0 | Do you do do you |
| 0:05.0 | do do |
| 0:06.0 | do you do |
| 0:07.0 | do you do |
| 0:10.0 | do you do you Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to you with the |
| 0:23.0 | support of King's College London and the Lever Hume Trust online at |
| 0:24.5 | W.W. history of philosophy dot net. Today's episode |
| 0:29.5 | The philosopher King Marcus Aurelius. |
| 0:35.0 | A few years back, a philosopher named Tom Morris published a book called |
| 0:40.0 | What If Aristotle ran General Motors? |
| 0:43.0 | It's a cute title, isn't it? |
| 0:45.0 | But I have a question that blows it out of the water. |
| 0:48.0 | What if a Stoic philosopher ran the Roman Empire? |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, with all due respect to General Motors, they only make cars, whereas the Roman |
| 0:57.1 | Empire was, well, the Roman Empire. |
| 1:00.9 | Also, my scenario has a significant advantage, namely that it isn't hypothetical. |
| 1:06.8 | A Stoic philosopher did run the Roman Empire. |
| 1:09.9 | He reined, first jointly and then on his own, for 20 years. |
| 1:14.1 | He was praised by contemporaries and later Roman historians for his moderate lifestyle and justice |
| 1:19.7 | and considered the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. |
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