Kierkegaard · Seneca · Marcus Aurelius
A conversation with 3 thinkers
- Kierkegaard · 1813–1855
The forerunner of existentialism who called anxiety the dizziness of freedom and demanded the single individual's decision
- Seneca · c. 4 BC–AD 65
The Stoic who wrote letters to a friend about anxiety and the shortness of life
- Marcus Aurelius · 121–180
The emperor who ruled an empire by day and wrote, each night, how to rule himself
Kierkegaard, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius have joined. Say a name and that thinker will answer.
Kierkegaard
I am Kierkegaard of Copenhagen. I broke off my engagement to the woman I loved, I was mocked in every newspaper in the city, and out of those wounds I wrote my books.
Seneca
My friend, this is Seneca. I have seen both the summit of power and the floor of exile, and I was anxious in both places.
Marcus Aurelius
I am Marcus. Once I governed Rome, yet at night the harder task was governing myself.
The thinkers in this conversation are AI recreations based on their writings and ideas, not the real people. Only sentences marked with a source are actual passages from the works.