William O. Stephens
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We can track that, right?
Right.
I mean, he was a closet philosopher, right?
It was.
It was a secret.
And he was doing it privately.
Even in the letters he'd exchanged with Cornelius Franto,
You know, they're talking about their illnesses and their aches and their pains endlessly over and over again in their correspondence.
But Frato was a rhetorician.
He wasn't a philosopher.
You know, we don't have like Seneca's letters, right?
We don't have Seneca writing, you know, to Lucilius in Marcus's case.
We don't have any of those texts.
We just have the Frato correspondence.
But yeah, during his lifetime,
He didn't have time to write philosophical tracks.
Seneca was in a much better position than he was.
And Epictetus, like Socrates, wasn't writing philosophy at all, so far as we can tell, right?
It's Arian who took down Epictetus' discourses.
So Marcus didn't have time to write treatises.