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Frost and Snow

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021
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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ON THE BENEFITS OF PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE IN A GENERAL INTRODUCTORY COURSE

open access: yesPhilosophy as a Way of Life, 2020
Philosophy as a way of life (PWOL) places investigations of value, meaning, and the good life at the center of philosophical investigation, especially of one’s own life.
Jake Wright
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J. W. Goethe: The Way of Life and Philosophy of Art

open access: yesKoinon, 2021
Is it possible today, within the framework of the history of philosophy, to reconstruct the life path of one of the philosophers, resorting to the recipes of subsequent researchers — especially when these followers did their creative works a couple of ...
A. V. Pertsev
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Self-transformation: Body, Mind, and Spirit

open access: yesJournal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2017
In this paper, I explore a conception of self-transformation that attempts to provide a holistic account covering a range of body, mind, and spirit.  I draw upon Kym Maclaren’s exploration of the role of the body inspired by the work of Maurice Merleau ...
William Konchak
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The experience of reading philosophy

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Reading is not a peripheral philosophical pastime; it constitutes most of what we do when we do philosophy. And the experience of reading philosophy is much more than just a series of interpretative acts: the philosopher-reader is subject to, among other
Daniel Whistler
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The Therapy of Desire in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned from Buddhism and Stoicism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Desire is an important philosophical topic that deeply impacts everyday life. Philosophical practice is an emerging trend that uses philosophical theories and methods as a guide to living a eudaimonic life. In this paper, we define desire philosophically
Xiaojun Ding   +3 more
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Ideal Cynic in Orations of Dio Chrysostom

open access: yesProfil, 2022
The paper deals with Dio's portrayal of Diogenes as a Cynic who challenges the conventional meaning of the good life. The author wonders whether Dio of Prusa mechanically takes over Diogenes' attitudes or adapts them to the social and political reality ...
Vladislav Suvák
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Mutterings to the Wall

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2022
This paper takes up Hadot’s call for more comparative work on Buddhism and Philosophy as a Way of Life by comparing Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku’s artwork Pilgrims with the graffiti artist Banksy’s The Street is in Play.
Kevin C. Taylor
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Applying Pierre Hadot’s Theory of the Nature of Philosophy to Avicenna [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت سینوی
Undoubtedly, Ibn Sina is the most important philosopher in the Islamic world. Understanding his thought requires new readings that can enable us to comprehend and explain philosophy in the Islamic world more accurately.
Seyed Amirreza Mazari
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Religieuze aspecten in beklagzaken van gedetineerden

open access: yesReligie & Samenleving, 2022
Dutch detention law sees a detainee as a legal subject. As a result, detention law has a complaints procedure for detainees. Restrictions of the right to religion/philosophy of life during detention can be a reason to complain. However, the way in which
Ryan van Eijk
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