Required Textbooks for the Marcus Aurelius Program

Rev 09/15/2022

LOGIC

A Rulebook for Arguments, 5th ed. (2017), by Anthony Weston, Hackett Publishing.

Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings (2011), trans. Cynthia King, Creative Space.

Hellenistic Philosophy, 2nd ed. (1986), by AA Long, University of California Press.

Philosophy as a Way of Life (2008), by Pierre Hadot, trans. M. Chase, Blackwell Press.

PHYSICS

The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (2003), Brad Inwood, ed., Cambridge University Press.

The God Theory (2009) by Bernard Haisch, Weiser Books.

The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine.

Heraclitus’ Fragments, any good translation, such as Robinson, Wheelwright, Burnet.

ETHICS

The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (2003), Brad Inwood, ed., Cambridge University Press.

The Inner Citadel: The “Meditations” of Marcus Aurelius (2001), by Pierre Hadot, trans. Michael Chase, Harvard University Press.