Marcus Aurelius said "It Loved to happen". I'am not sure why but I can't get these words out of my head. What does it mean? My apologies if I posted this in the wrong forum but the man was a philosopher as well as an emporer.
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Re: "It Loved to happen".
I have no idea about the context, but it seems like something happened, which my friend Marcus liked, and said that the event loved to happen because it was so great? Personalising the event as someone who, by it's great nature, loved to... well happen.
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Re: "It Loved to happen".
lets break it down. It seems to be everything. It loved to happen would mean it loved to be here on earth. thats how i look at it.
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Re: "It Loved to happen".
I think he meant that something was so world-changing, in such an unexpected way, that ''it'' just loved to see the results of ''its'' own actions.
Miles
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Re: "It Loved to happen".
What's the context, man? We can't tell you what it means if we don't know what Marcus Aurelius was talking about.
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Re: "It Loved to happen".
Or even in latin and with a context; that'd be really useful, I think.
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Re: "It Loved to happen".
If you think that Marcus Aurelius was a Stoic and that he believed that we cannot remove our judgment from the perception of an event, then it seems a playful (yes, I know Stoics are not exactly happy go lucky persons) way to demonstrate the failure of explanatory tactics beyond the realm of "nature" (material world).
Things love to happen and this should be sufficient explanation for an event beyond our grasp, ergo an emotional event.
Now I have serious doubts that he said that...but...
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