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More About This Title Philosophy as a Way of Life - Ancients and Moderns
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- Comprehensive treatment of a neglected theme: philosophy’s practical relevance in our lives
- Interdisciplinary analysis reflects the wide influence of Hadot’s thought
- Explores the links between Hadot’s ideas and those of a wealth of ancient and modern thinkers, including the French postmodernists
- Offers a practical ‘third way’ in philosophy beyond the dichotomy of Continental and analytical traditions
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Michael Chase is a Researcher at the Jean Pépin Centre of the National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris. A former student of Pierre Hadot himself, he has completed numerous translations of Hadot’s works, and has also published on Late Greek and Latin Neoplatonism, Patristics, and Islamic and Medieval thought.
Stephen R. L. Clark is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. His books include Aristotle’s Man (1975), From Athens to Jerusalem (1984), Civil Peace and Sacred Order (1989), Biology and Christian Ethics (2000), Understanding Faith (2009) and Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy (2013).
Michael McGhee is Honorary Senior Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool. He is the author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice (2000), as well as of a number of articles on moral philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion.
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Foreword by John H. Spencer xiii
1 Introduction 1
Michael Chase
2 Ancient Philosophers: A First Statistical Survey 10
Richard Goulet
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3 Philosophy as a Way of Life: As Textual and More Than Textual Practice 40
Richard Shusterman
4 Charismatic Authority, Spiritual Guidance, and Way of Life in the Pythagorean Tradition 57
Constantinos Macris
5 Alcibiades' Love 84
Jan Zwicky
6 Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions 99
Matthew T. Kapstein
7 Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from the Buddha to Tagore 116
Jonardon Ganeri
8 Approaching Islamic Philosophical Texts: Reading Mulla Sadra Sirazi (d. 1635) with Pierre Hadot 132
Sajjad H. Rizvi
9 Philosophy and Self-improvement: Continuity and Change in Philosophy's Self-conception from the Classical to the Early-modern Era 148
John Cottingham
10 Descartes' Meditations: Practical Metaphysics: The Father of Rationalism in the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises 167
Theodor Kobusch
11 Leading a Philosophical Life in Dark Times: The Case of Leonard Nelson and His Followers 184
Fernando Leal
12 Philosophy as a Way of Life and Anti-philosophy 210
Gwena¨elle Aubry
13 Philosophy and Gestalt Psychotherapy 223
Paul O'Grady
14 Wittgenstein's Temple: Or How Cool is Philosophy? 241
Michael McGhee
15 Observations on Pierre Hadot's Conception of Philosophy as a Way of Life 262
Michael Chase
Bibliography 287
Index 311
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“This is a most valuable collection of essays, stimulated as it is by the thought of Pierre Hadot, which will help to bring the concept of philosophy as a way of life to an English-speaking audience. Chase, Clark, and McGhee put us all in their debt for assembling this fine and varied collection.”
— John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus), Trinity College Dublin
"By comparing Hindus, Buddhists, Stoics, Pythagoreans and Descartes, and interpreting Hadot, this important book reveals, as never before, the diversities in the practice of philosophy as a way of life."
—Richard Sorabji, Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
