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LEIBNIZ’S PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE?
AbstractThe main concern of this essay is to make a case for the thesis that Leibniz conceived of his philosophy as a way of life in something like the sense articulated in the works of Pierre Hadot. On this view, philosophy was a type of conduct, or a mode of existing‐in‐the‐world, which had to be practised at each instant, with the goal of ...
Paul Lodge
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Academic Philosophy as a Way of Life
Preview: Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as a way of life (PWL) has gained undeniable prominence in contemporary debates about the nature and function of philosophy.
Eli Kramer, Marta Faustino, Hélder Telo
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Philosophy Plays: A Neo-Socratic Way of Performing Public Philosophy
This paper provides an explanatory rationale within a theoretical philosophical framework for the Philosophy Plays project as a call to public philosophy, conceived as a way of life and a form of communal therapy for the mind.
Edward H. Spence
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Spiritual Exercises and the Question of Religion in the Work of Pierre Hadot
This paper addresses John M. Cooper’s critique, and related critiques, of Pierre Hadot’s conception of philosophy as a way of life for collapsing the distinction between philosophy and religion, via the category of “spiritual exercises”.
Matthew Sharpe
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Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
In a world described or experienced as unfair, what can philosophical practitioners propose in order to help individuals and communities strive for a meaningful life? One answer, empirically informed by the author’s practice as philosophical counselor in
Luis de Miranda
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The idea of philosophy as a ‘way of life’ is not a new one. From the first recorded philosophy by Plato, there has been a tradition of thinking about philosophy as pointing us towards the good life, happiness and an ethical existence. But where does this notion that philosophy has anything to offer in terms of guiding us in how to live and live well ...
Sharpe, Matthew, Ure, Michael
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Chapter II of Foucault's The Care of the Self, 'The Cultivation of the Self,' is arguably one of the most controversial sections of the entire History of Sexuality.
Matteo Johannes Stettler
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A Review of the Relationship between Knowledge (theory) and Practice in Sohrevardi's Illuminationist Philosophy, based on Pierre Hadot's model of Philosophy as a Way of Life [PDF]
Pierre Hadot (1922-2010), a contemporary French philosopher, illustrated the dynamics and essence of philosophy in a philosopher's everyday life by offering the model of philosophy as a way of life, which was the result of many years of research on ...
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Why awaken the soul to justice if the only result can be to increase awareness of the futility of aspiring to justice in the world? Zwicky documents challenges to the belief that teaching philosophy will result in a fairer polity and suggests that ...
Jan Zwicky
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Questo articolo tenta di rivendicare l’idea della filosofia come modo di vivere – un’idea e un’espressione associate in particolare a Pierre Hadot. Questo implica la riconsiderazione del compito e dell’aspetto pratica della filosofia. La filosofia va incontro a una crisi di identità.
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