The book that I have chosen for this blog is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. The reason that I chose this book originally was because I thought that my thesis would encompass certain ideas relating to the Roman Empire, and so I thought that researching a philosophical text written by one of the emperor’s of the time would offer a unique insight into that topic. However, my topic has changed and evolved since then and so I still chose to keep this book because after reading the book, I realized that it still offered significant insight about ethics (and especially the ethics of being a good leader) that would be helpful for my thesis.

In this Blog, I hope to accomplish a clear discussion on several ethical topics discussed in Aurelius’s book, as well as how to relates to contemporary ethical issues. In my first four posts, I will focus on summarizing the book, and in my last four posts, I will focus on analyzing a couple of ethical issues and how it relates to the book, as well as the discussions/readings from our class.