Robertson, a founding member of the organization Modern Stoicism and the president and founder of the Plato’s Academy Centre nonprofit, is the author of Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor In the ...

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a timeless collection of philosophical reflections written during his reign as a Roman emperor. Rooted in stoic thought, the book offers practical wisdom for ...

The second-century A.D. world of Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in shambles. A great plague ravaged western Europe, as he embarked on a long and bloody war against the Germanic tribes along the Danube ...

Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill, who, in On Liberty (1859) ...