Philosophy as a way of life

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exegetical phase 5

Vohnirc 25011

features 34, JS

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Index

309

love of 265

Xenocrates 266

nature of 57, 58, 1 03, 228, 261

Xenophon I I 7n

Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann 1 7,

flight of the soul 240

1 8, 280, 285

on Socrates 23, 1 55, 1 58, 1 67

worry, Epicureans' attitudes 88

Xylander IO

writing, therapeutic values 209-1 1

Antony 135, 209, 2 1 1

Zeno l l3n

Foucault 209-1 0

Zopyrus 148

Marcus Aurelius 1 95

9 111

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Document Outline

Contents

Translator's Note

Abbreviations

Introduction: Pierre Hadot and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy by Arnold I. Davidson

1 Method and Practices of Interpretation in the History of Ancient Philosophy and Theology

2 Spiritual Exercises

Notes

Part I: Method

1. Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

Notes

2. Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes

Notes

Part II: Spiritual Exercises

3. Spiritual Exercises

1 Learning to Live

2 Learning to Dialogue

3 Learning to Die

4 Leaming How to Read

Notes

4. Ancient Spiritual Exercises and "Christian Philosophy"

Notes

Part III: Figures

5. The Figure of Socrates

1 Silenus

2 Eros

3 Dionysos

Notes

6. Marcus Aurelius

1 The Meditations as a Spiritual Exercise

2 Epictetus

3 Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus

Notes

7. Reflections on the Idea of the "Cultivation of the Self"

Notes

Part IV: Themes

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

Notes

9. The View from Above

Notes

10. The Sage and the World

1 Definition of the Problem

2 The World of Science and the World of Everyday Perception

3 Aesthetic Perception

4 Spectator Novus

S The Instant

6 The Sage and the World

Notes

11. Philosophy as a Way of Life

Notes

Postscript: An Interview with Pierre Hadot

Notes

Select Bibliography

ANTHOLOGIES

ANCIENT AUTHORS

MODERN AUTHORS

Index