Synopsis

Diary of a Roman Emperor The Meditations is a diary written by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to himself. Actually, the long-established title Meditations is kind of misleading and not original. The book doesn’t have an emphasized and coherent argument but instead some recurring themes. A few topics are mentioned and discussed multiple times throughout the book. For example, the sense of mortality pervades the work. Marcus contemplates the topic of death and continually reminds himself that death is a natural process that is not to be feared, part of the continual change that forms the world. Not surprisingly, reading the Meditations for long periods can be conducive to melancholy. ...

A fun fact is that the name of this website comes from the book: Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth. This article is more or less a review of the book. Logicomix is a graphic novel(or a comic book) depicting the life of the renowned British mathematician, philosopher, logician, writer, and public intellectual Bertrand Russell, particularly Russell’s quest for fundamental and absolute truth by attempting to establish a new rigid and provable foundation for mathematics. ...