(121-180 CE)
When trying to determine which philosopher I would research, I remembered the following pass from the Silence of the Lambs. This exchange is between Hannibal Lecter and the rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling.
Hannibal. Lecter: prototypical principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its constitution? What does he do, this man you seek?
Clarice Starling: He kills women.
Hannibal Lecter: No, that is incidental. What is the first and leash thing he does, what needs does he serve by killing?
Clarice Starling: Anger, social resentment, sexual frustration
Hannibal Lecter: No, he covets. Thats his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? give birth an effort to answer, now.
~ Silence of the Lambs (1991)
I took the advice of Lecter and decided to read near Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius was most famous for his writing the Meditations and for being a corking emperor. The Meditations have been used over the centuries as a root of wisdom. This is an essential text for everyone interested in philosophy.
Biography
Originally born(p) as Marcus Annius Verus in Rome in the year 121 CE, he was raised in a wealthy and politically important family of Spanish origin.
His father was Annius Verus and his mother was Domitia Lucilla. His parents died when he was young and Marcus was adopt first by his grandfather and then in 138 CE by his uncle Aurelius Antonius Pius. Emperor Hadrian, the adoptive father of Pius, encouraged the adoption. Hadrian spy the young child and punned on his name, Verus meaning true and called him Verissimus which convey most truthful. Young Marcus Aureliuss education embraced rhetoric and philosophy. He had a very serious manner and took his studies seriously. Aurelius was conception to be a potential successor by Hadrian for a long time.
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