This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Frances 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. This
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.
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