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The Present Alone Is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson
ISBN: 9780804748360 | 0804748365
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/5/2009
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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 scholarlyWhat is Ancient Philosophy?, we learn that to be an Epicur... MORE
Pierre Hadot is Professor Emeritus of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thought at the Collège de France. Among his books to have already appeared in English are: Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (1995), Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision (1998) and What Is Ancient Philosophy? (2002). Jeannie Carlier does research at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and Arnold I. Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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