Marco Aurelio: entre el dominio del mundo y el dominio de sí mismo

Abstract

It is well know that Heraclitus, constitutes the main influence of stoicism, despite his conception of the reality as a contrary fight or war was not one of the aspects of higher relevance in the Hellenistic school. However, Marcuse Aurelius, probably was the last great stoic philosopher of the ancient times, not only he rescued the Heracliten idea of universal fluctuation but, also the aggressive conception of reality that, reconcile with the Socratic legacy of stoicism, entails a proposal of a philosophic way of life that provide us protection against a disturbing and threating reality. The emperor takes back ideas of moral character from other roman stoics such as Seneca and Epictetus and, despite of not been capable of offering deep speculation about reality, it allow us to understand the narrow link between logic, physics and ethics.