{"product_id":"9780865975118","title":"The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus","description":"\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 offered 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. In their account of the life of the emperor, prefaced to their translation from the Greek, Hutcheson and Moor celebrated the Stoic ideal of an orderly universe governed by a benevolent God. They contrasted the serenity recommended and practiced by Marcus Aurelius with the divisive sectarianism then exhibited by their fellow Presbyterians in Scotland and elsewhere. They urged their readers and fellow citizens to set aside their narrow prejudices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn many ways, Hutcheson and Moor’s \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a companion volume to Hutcheson’s Latin work on ethics, released in the same year, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria.\u003c\/i\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\u003cb\u003eKnud Haakonssen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032964743408,"sku":"9780865975118","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865975118_p0.jpg?v=1763836811","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865975118","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}