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Of Cartesianism and Spiritual Exercises
Philosophy Today, 2022This article challenges the recurrent critique that Pierre Hadot’s identification of ancient philosophy with the practice of spiritual exercises introduces a non- or irrational dimension into metaphilosophy. The occasion to do this is provided by Kerem Eksen’s recent reading of Descartes’s Meditations as consisting of solely intellectual, rather than ...
Stettler, Matteo J., Sharpe, Matthew
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Aquinas, Hadot, and Spiritual Exercises
New Blackfriars, 2017AbstractThe work of Pierre Hadot can highlight understudied aspects of the work of Thomas Aquinas. Hadot offers two key concepts in his study of ancient philosophy: philosophy as a “way of life” and “spiritual exercises”, which help us to approach Thomas, especially given his regular use of the term “spiritual exercise” and the concept of “exercise.”
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Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) was a French philologist and a historian of ancient philosophy. He researched widely on Greek, Roman, and Hellenistic philosophy and on Latin Patristics, and he also developed an original philosophical mode of thought which puts contemporary and ancient philosophy into dialogue with each other.
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Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) was a French philologist and a historian of ancient philosophy. He researched widely on Greek, Roman, and Hellenistic philosophy and on Latin Patristics, and he also developed an original philosophical mode of thought which puts contemporary and ancient philosophy into dialogue with each other.
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L'Art de l'interprétation chez Pierre Hadot
2023Our goal in the present thesis is to examine what role is devoted to the art of interpretation in the trajectory of the French philosopher Pierre Hadot. Pierre Hadot is known, first and foremost, for his redefinition of philosophy as a way of life grounded in the practice of spiritual exercises.
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Receção do Neoplatonismo em Pierre Hadot
Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2021The Neoplatonic reference nuclearly condenses a historically consolidated proposal for the intelligibility of Philosophy. Characterizing the philosophical meaning inherent in the original formation of Neoplatonism, Pierre Hadot develops a perspective according to which Philosophy is equivalent to the existential configuration of texts produced in ...
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Socratic Ironies: Reading Hadot, Reading Kierkegaard
Sophia, 2016This paper examines the seemingly unlikely rapport between the ‘Christian existentialist’, radically Protestant thinker, Soren Kierkegaard and French classicist and historian of philosophy, Pierre Hadot, famous for advocating a return to the ancient pagan sense of philosophy as a way of life.
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Hadot's later Wittgenstein: A critique
Philosophical InvestigationsAbstractPierre Hadot is best known as a historian of ancient philosophy and for advocating the relevance of ancient thinking for contemporary lives. What is less well known is that he was one of the first French philosophers to take a serious interest in the work of Wittgenstein, publishing between 1959 and 1962 two essays on the Tractatus and two on ...
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Cinema as Spiritual Exercise: Tarkovsky and Hadot
2020This chapter examines Tarkovsky’s cinema in relation to contemporary philosopher Pierre Hadot’s concept of spiritual exercises. As the chapter demonstrates, each of Tarkovsky’s films could be seen as such spiritual exercises because of numerous parallels with Hadot’s theory: all his protagonists demand of themselves extreme forms of mental ...
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