{"product_id":"the-meditations-of-the-emperor-marcus-aurelius-antoninus-9780865975101","title":"The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Moore | Michael Silverthorne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Francis Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis influential classical work offers a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn many ways, Hutcheson and Moor's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a companion volume to Hutcheson's Latin work on ethics, released in the same year, \u003cem\u003ePhilosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria\u003c\/em\u003e. In the latter volume, which is also available from Liberty Fund, Hutcheson continues a theme that proffered his ethics as a modern and, not least, Christianized version of Stoicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Hutcheson\u003c\/strong\u003e (1694-1746) was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he assumed the chair of moral philosophy in 1729.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311962706071,"sku":"9780865975101","price":2337.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780865975101.webp?v=1767703771","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-meditations-of-the-emperor-marcus-aurelius-antoninus-9780865975101","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}