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Loading... Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (original 1981; edition 1995)by Pierre Hadot, Arnold Davidson (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Pierre Hadot desenvolveu uma visão original da filosofia antiga, entendida como modo de vida. A filosofia não é um sistema, mas um exercício espiritual preparatório para a sabedoria. O livro Exercícios Espirituais e Filosofia Antiga apresenta as grandes linhas desta tese, evidenciando sua aplicação em diferentes correntes da filosofia antiga e em diversos autores, notadamente Marco Aurélio. Mas a lição da filosofia antiga teria ficado somente no passado? Hadot dialoga com a contemporaneidade, mostrando que traços importantes da filosofia entendida como modo de vida permanecem ainda em nosso mundo, como se percebe pelo debate que realizou com Michel Foucault. (Amazon) Hadot presents philosophy as "spiritual exercises" through essays on Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, and others. In addition to the exercises the book includes essays on the methods of philosophy, discussions of Socrates and Marcus Aurelius. The essay on Marcus Aurelius was enhanced by my concurrent reading of his Meditations which can be seen as an example of the way of practicing philosophy described in Hadot's book. The book concludes with a section on "Themes" where the nature of happiness and understanding the world through philosophizing are considered. He concludes with the title essay that recommends practicing philosophy as 'a way of life'. This was an intriguing and invigorating read that, as with all good books, left this reader with as many questions as it did answers. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found.
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