Robert Burns and Stoicism
Why did Burns give a copy of "To a mouse" to an expert on Stoicism?
It was the precepts of this school which rendered the supreme power in the hands of Marcus Aurelius a blessing to the human race… — Dugald Stewart
Robert Burns (1759–1796), the national bard of Scotland, was good friends with Dugald Stewart (1753–1828), a professor of philosophy at Edinburgh University, and an expert on Stoicism.
According to Stewart’s …
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