ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the presence of logical themes in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. It begins by outlining the way in which logic was understood in antiquity, in particular the Stoic account of logic, encompassing rhetoric and dialectic. Within the context of this broad conception of logic, the chapter examines the notions of impressions and judgements as they appear in the Meditations. It looks at the way in which Marcus see some impressions as reliable and some as deceptive and compares this with the earlier Chrysippean account. The role of judgements in the Meditations is placed against the background of early Stoic epistemology and the ways in which Roman Stoics such as Epictetus and Marcus shift attention to value judgements. The chapter concludes by showing the close connection between the notions of impressions and judgements.
