The Virtue That Made Marcus Aurelius So Great
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Marcus Aurelius did not come out of the womb a leader. Nor was he an emperor ‘by blood.’ In fact, when first told he was to be king, he wept—thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history.
So how did he get from there to philosopher king? Book 1 of Meditations shows us. The first ten percent of the book—Debts and Lessons—thanks people who groomed him into one of history’s greatest leaders. He knew it—without his philosophy teachers and rhetoric teachers and, most importantly, his mentor Antoninus Pius, he wouldn’t have became who he became.
In this episode Ryan Holiday recounts one of the greatest stories in human history and talks about how Antoninus Pius taught Marcus Aurelius the most important virtue of all.
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| 1:08.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 1:13.0 | Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:17.9 | In today's episode I'm telling in depth one of my favorite stories, one of the most incredible |
| 1:22.6 | stories that ever was, story of Marcus Arelius and his stepfather Antoninus and how Antoninus |
| 1:30.7 | taught embodied, modeled and inspired Marcus in the virtue of discipline, the discipline |
| 1:38.2 | of soft for seeing a self-control temperance, moderation and how necessary this was for |
| 1:43.9 | Marcus at these profound levels of power and fame that he possessed and how we can learn |
| 1:50.8 | from that as well. |
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