Questions about the Meditation Book What is the Meditation Book about?

You can't have your past, you can't decide your future, all you have is the present, and the present doesn't actually exist (time is passing evenly). So you have nothing, how can you possibly lose something? Can a man lose what he doesn't have in the first place?

I don't understand it because there is a logical error in this passage: circular proof.

The big premise: to be able to take the present from one person.

Minor premise: A person can only be taken away from what he has (not explicitly, but it is a necessary premise) So: a person has the present.

Because: one can only be taken away from now;

So: one only has the present;

Because: one does not possess anything other than the present;

Therefore: nothing other than one's present can be taken away;

Therefore: it is impossible for a man to lose something that he does not possess;

But this conclusion is only a reverse statement that a person can only be taken away from what he has;

The things around us or what we think we have, in fact, are like our bodies, they change every second, so what we have is only the existence of that moment, and the next second it will be different, so even if we take something away from a certain person, it is only taken away from that moment's possession, and the next second that thing will change, so no one really has something constant all the time, so it is impossible for a person to lose something that he does not have.

Perhaps, all we really have is our present, and other things do not belong to us, so tell us to grasp the present.

Jesus said, "One day is enough."

The author is a Roman emperor, what's so special about it?

The Meditations deal with the ethics of life as well as natural philosophy.

The Meditations was written by the ancient Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in the late 2nd century AD.

A personal philosophical reflection that has been handed down, mainly thinking about the ethics of life, as well as natural philosophy; It is a collection of essays written by Aurelius for himself.

In his book, Marcus Ocular expounds on the relationship between the soul and death, and analyzes the virtues of the individual, the liberation of the individual, and the responsibility of the individual to society, and requires constant self-examination in order to achieve inner peace, and to abandon all useless and trivial thoughts and think with integrity.

Thoughts: Marcus Aurelius dismissed everything that happened to him as evil, believing that pain and uneasiness merely came from the opinion of the heart and could be removed by the heart.

He was deeply philosophical about life and enthusiastically learned from others their best qualities, daring, humility, and love. He wanted people to love work, understand the nature of life and the art of living, respect the common good and work for it.

The book "Meditations" is about how to treat others and oneself, how to deal with life and death, and how to think about things and the laws of the universe.

The Meditations are a personal philosophical reflections in the form of Proverbs, mostly from the reign of Marcus Aurelius. However, the book rarely mentions the way of governing as the head of a country, and more about the infinite contemplation of life, as well as the conjecture and exploration of unfathomable natural philosophy.

Marcus Aurelius's thoughts all point to the same theme: a tranquil, contemplative, moral and thoughtful rational life. To accomplish this, he memorized countless transparent proverbs to admonish himself.

This emperor, who was in a high position but loved contemplation and exploration all the time, will eventually be remembered by future generations. His Meditations not only became one of the milestones of ancient Greco-Roman Stoic philosophy, but also influenced many people through the millennia.

Introduction by the author of "Meditations".

Marcus Aurelius was born into a prominent family in the ancient Roman Empire. He served as consul three times from his youth and became emperor with full power at the age of 40. However, he insisted on succeeding to the throne with his adoptive brother Willes, and for the first time in the history of the Roman Empire, two emperors of equal status and power were in power.

He worked diligently for the Empire, and as a practitioner of law who was sympathetic to the people's feelings, he issued a large number of decrees, made many judicial decisions, and removed unreasonable provisions from the civil law. In the spare time of his hard work, he continued to write down dialogues with his own heart, thus writing the "Meditations" that will forever be suspended for posterity.