Philosophy as a way of life

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Introduction: Pie"e Hadol and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy Arnold I. Davidson

Part I Method

47

l Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy 49

2 Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes

7 1

Part II Spiritual Exercises

79

3 Spiritual Exercises

8 1

4 Ancient Spiritual Exercises and "Christian Philosophy"

1 26

Part Ill Figures

145

5 The Figure of Socrates

147

6 Marcus Aurelius

179

7 Reflections on the Idea of the "Cultivation of the Selr'

206

Part IV Themes

215

8 "Only the Present is our Happiness": The Value of the Present Instant in Goethe and in Ancient Philosophy

2 1 7

9 The View from Above

238

10 The Sage and the World

25 1

11 Philosophy as a Way of Life

264

/111stsrrip1: An 1'1terviem with Pierre Hadot

277

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Translator's Note

The thought of Pierre Hadot is based on a lifetime's study of, and meditation upon, ancient Greek and Latin philosophical texts. In the course of this long period, he has, of course, developed his own methodology for the study of such texts. Based as it is on the methods of his own teachers, such as Paul Henry and Pierre Courcelle, 1 this method is distinctly his own, and he has transmitted it to a whole generation of French scholars in the field of late antique thought.

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