Learning items
Meditations
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ConceptEthical role models
A role model’s conduct can illustrate qualities to examine and practice.
ConceptExamining impressions
Examining an impression separates the apparent thing, its parts and one’s judgment about it.
ConceptGratitude for moral learning
Recognizing who helped develop one’s character connects gratitude with ethical reflection.
ConceptMortality and present action
Reflection on a finite life can focus attention on how to use the present.
ConceptStoic response to wrongdoing
A Stoic response can resist wrongdoing without allowing another person’s misconduct to dictate one’s own character.
ConceptStoic social duty
In Marcus’s Stoic outlook, human rationality is connected with duties toward other people.