MARCUS AURELIUS – A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING
MARCUS AURELIUS – A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING

Summary/Abstract: In “To Himself”, Marcus Aurelius prescribes a set of moral rules for his own use, a kind of "daily accountof life" for self-concern. Self-concern is the attitude by which the individual shapes his self and whichinvolves both a way of being characterized by reflection on the self and a series of practices by which theindividual takes care of himself, trying to change, purify, to turn to achieve the rectitude of his moralactions. In this paper, I will show how Stoic self-concern is, from the perspective of philosophicalcounselling, an important instrument used in philosophical practice, being conceptualized as aphilosophical meditation and re-grounding the premise of discovering philosophy as a way of life.

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