Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
This is Michael Sugrue's (Ph.D. Princeton University) lecture on Stoicism and Marcus Aurelius. Taken from the Great Courses: Great Minds Of The Western Intellectual Tradition 2nd edition, 1995 VHS tape.
It's the very first video that I watched about stoicism. I found it when I was researching about Marcus Aurelius, and it's what got me into stoicism. I've watched it countless times.
It's split in 5 videos. He begins talking about stoicism at 4:24 in the 1st video.
Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLD09Qa3kMk&list=PL361CE5C9167977FC
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He makes an interesting point about Marcus Aurelius being the embodiment of Plato's philosopher king if such a man ever existed. Marcus was truly an incredible man, if I didn't know about him I would have refused to believe that such a man can exist.