Required Textbooks for the Marcus Aurelius Program

As of 12/24/2025

LOGIC

Inwood, B., ed. (2003). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). Cambridge University Press.

Long, A. (1986). Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press.

   And, either

King, C. (2011). Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings (1st ed.). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

   Or

Rufus, M. (2021). That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic (C. Lutz, Trans.) (1st ed.). Yale University Press.

PHYSICS

Inwood, B., ed. (2003). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). Cambridge University Press.

Nagel, T. (2012). Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. Oxford University Press.

Johncock, W. (2023). Beyond the Individual: Stoic Philosophy on Community and Connection. Pickwick Publications.

ETHICS

Hadot, P. (2001). The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Harvard University Press.

Inwood, B., ed. (2003). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). Cambridge University Press.