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9780631180333

Philosophy as a Way of Life Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631180333

  • ISBN10:

    0631180338

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-08-03
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.

Author Biography

Pierre Hadot is Professor of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thought at the College de France. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1942 to 1946, later becoming first a researcher and then director of studies at the +cole Practique des Hautes +tudes in Paris. He is the author of several landmark essays, collected together in Exercices Spirituels et Philosophie Antique (Second Edition, 1987).

Table of Contents

Translator's Note vi
List of Abbreviations
ix
Introduction: Pierre Hadot and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy 1(46)
Arnold I. Davidson
Part I Method 47(32)
Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy
49(22)
Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes
71(8)
Part II Spiritual Exercises 79(66)
Spiritual Exercises
81(45)
Ancient Spiritual Exercises and ``Christian Philosophy''
126(19)
Part III Figures 145(70)
The Figure of Socrates
147(32)
Marcus Aurelius
179(27)
Reflections on the Idea of the ``Cultivation of the Self''
206(9)
Part IV Themes 215(62)
``Only the Present is our Happiness'': The Value of the Present Instant in Goethe and in Ancient Philosophy
217(21)
The View from Above
238(13)
The Sage and the World
251(13)
Philosophy as a Way of Life
264(13)
Postscript: An Interview with Pierre Hadot 277(10)
Select Bibliography 287(14)
Index 301

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