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A 4 page paper which critically examines Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Confessions by St. Augustine. 2 sources cited.
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left behind pieces of themselves when they wrote particular works. The works, Marcus Aurelius Meditations and St. Augustines Confessions, present the reader with many different topics and speculations or philosophies
from these two writers. They are not simply works that address one particular element in life or spirituality, but many things. The following paper analyzes, separately, the two works.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Aurelius work begins with contemplation, or meditation, upon things in his family and how they influenced him. It is a very short section which examines
this and most of the section is in the following: "Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion.
From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour" (Aurelius First Book I). He speaks of his mother and others and
his great-grandfather. Much of this first book concerns what he thinks he had learned from various people in his life. The remainder of the work addresses other words of wisdom
he believes that he can impart on the reader, wisdom he felt he had learned. It is almost as though he has written an incredibly extensive work that offers up
parables, or a book of varied quotes. As an example, in the Sixth Book he notes, "Do not ever conceive anything impossible to man, which by thee cannot, or
not without much difficulty be effected; but whatsoever in general thou canst Conceive possible and proper unto any man, think that very possible unto thee also" (Aurelius Sixth Book XVIII).
In this he is stating that a person should think something is impossible just because they do not think they can do it. This is one of those wise notions
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