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Present Alone is Our Happiness

Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson

Autor: Pierre Hadot

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Stanford University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Anci...

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Autor

Pierre Hadot

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2008

Stránek

216

EAN

9780804748353

ISBN

0804748357

Enbook ID

04717683

Vydavatel

Stanford University Press

Hmotnost

474

Rozměry

236 x 161 x 17

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In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life.One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy in the world today, Hadot is adept at using ancient philosophers to illuminate the relevance of their ideas to contemporary life. In this book, which is an ideal introduction to Hadot's more scholarly What is Ancient Philosophy?, we learn that to be an Epicurean is not merely to think like one; it is to adopt a way of living where limiting desires is the condition for happiness.Being an Aristotelian, similarly, is to choose a life that involves contemplation, and being a Cynic is to follow Diogenes in his refusal of quotidian convention and the mentality of ordinary people. If so many Ancient philosophers founded schools, Hadot explains, it was precisely because they were proposing how to live life on a daily basis. We learn here that the history of philosophy has been something more than just that of a discourse. The founding texts of Greek philosophy, after all, were notes taken from oral exercises undertaken in concrete circumstances and contexts, most often a dialogue between students and specific interlocutors who meant to shed light on their students' real existence. The immense contribution of this book, which also traces Hadot's own personal itinerary in a touching manner, is to remind us, through direct language and numerous examples, what the theoretical aspect of philosophy often masks: its vital and existential dimensions.

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