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The volume structures the inquiry into method, spiritual exercises, key figures, and recurring themes, linking philosophical practice to lived transformation. It includes editorial framing by Arnold I. Davidson and explains Hadot’s text-centered approach to interpretation and translation.","Philosophy as a Way of Life  \nPhilosophy as a Way of Life  \nSpiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault  \nPierre Hadot  \nEdited with an introduction by Arnold I. Davidson  \nTranslated by  \nMichael Chase  \nBLACl\u003CWELL  \nOd•tJ UIC I\\ f•\"'􀌕''\"'' USA  \nCopyright 0 Pierre Hadot, 1995  \nEnglish translation C Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1995  \nThe right of Pierre Hadot to be Identified as author of this work has been asserted In accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nParts of this work first published asExerclcu 1plrltuel1 et philo1ophle antique  \nby Etudes Augustiniennes, Paris 1987 (2nd edition)  \nEnglish edition first published 1995  \nReprinted 1996 (twice), 1997, 1998, 1999  \nBlackwell Publishers Ltd  \nl 08 Cowley Road  \nOxford OX4 lJF, UK  \nBlackwell Publishers Inc  \n350 Main Street  \nMalden, Massachusetts 02148, USA  \nAll rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes or criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a rcb'ieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission  \northe publisher.  \nExcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise; be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that In which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being Imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nBrltlah Library Cataloguing In Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congru1 Cataloging In Publication Data Hadot, Pierre.  \n[Exercices spirituels et philosophic antique. English] Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault/Pierre Hadot; edited by Arnold Davidson; translated by Michael Chase.  \n[p.cm](p.cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-631-18032-X (alk. paper) - ISBN 0-631-18033-8 O>bk.:alk.paper)  \n1. Philosophy. 2. Spiritual exercises-History. I. Davidson, Arnold Ira.  \nII. Title  \nBl05 .S66H3313 1995  \n100-dc20 94-28788 CIP  \nTypeset in 10.5 on 12 pt Ehrhardt  \nby Pure Tech Corporation, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall  \nThis book is printed on acid-free paper  \nContents  \nTranslator's Nott v1  \nlist ofAbbreviations ix  \nIntroduction: Pie\"e Hadol and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy Arnold I. Davidson  \nPart I Method 47  \nl Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy 49  \n2 Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes 71  \nPart II Spiritual Exercises 79  \n3 Spiritual Exercises 81  \n4 Ancient Spiritual Exercises and \"Christian Philosophy\" 126  \nPart Ill Figures 145  \n5 The Figure of Socrates 147  \n6 Marcus Aurelius 179  \n7 Reflections on the Idea of the \"Cultivation of the Selr' 206  \nPart IV Themes 215  \n8 \"Only the Present is our Happiness\": The Value of the Present Instant in Goethe and in Ancient Philosophy 217  \n9 The View from Above 238  \n10 The Sage and the World 25 1  \n11 Philosophy as a Way of Life 264  \n/111stsrrip1: An 1'1terviem with Pierre Hadot 277  \nSrlrl'I Ri/Jli11grt1pliy 287  \nl\"'lr.t· 30 1  \nTranslator's Note  \nThe thought of Pierre Hadot is based on a lifetime's study of, and meditation upon, ancient Greek and Latin philosophical texts. In the course of this long period, he has, of course, developed his own methodology for the study of such texts. Based as it is on the methods of his own teachers, such as Paul Henry and Pierre Courcelle, 1 this method is distinctly his own, and he has transmitted it to a whole generation of French scholars in the field of late antique thought.  \nThe first stage of Hadot's method is a scrupulous, textually critical reading of the original texts, followed by an equally exacting translation of these texts int","cbCais3xys2VpMlP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais3xys2VpMlP","pdf",15465823,2,1,321,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Translator's Note\n## Introduction: Pierre Hadot and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy\n## Part I Method\n## Part II Spiritual Exercises\n## Part III Figures\n## Part IV Themes\n## Appendix: Interview with Pierre Hadot\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of Philosophy as a Way of Life in this edition?\",\"answer\":\"It examines philosophy as a lived practice through “spiritual exercises,” mapping their evolution from Socrates to later intellectual 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