What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Name: What Is Ancient Philosophy?
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ISBN: 9780674013735

ISBN-10: 0674013735

ISBN-13: 9780674013735

Edition: 2002

Authors: Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase

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A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all tended toward one goal: to provide a means for achieving happiness in this life, by transforming the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world. Most pressing for Hadot is…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.23" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Pierre Hadot was Professor Emeritus, CollÃ¨ge de France. His books include Philosophy as a Way of Life and Plotinus.



Acknowledgments


Translator's Note


Introduction



The Platonic Definition of "Philosopher" and Its Antecedents



Philosophy before Philosophy



The Inception of the Idea of "Doing Philosophy"



The Figure of Socrates



The Definition of "Philosopher" in Plato's Symposium



Philosophy as a Way of Life



Plato and the Academy



Aristotle and His School



The Hellenistic Schools



Philosophical Schools in the Imperial Period



Philosophy and Philosophical Discourse



Interruption and Continuity: The Middle Ages and Modern Times



Christianity as a Revealed Philosophy



Eclipses and Recurrences of the Ancient Concept of Philosophy



Questions and Perspectives


Notes


Quotations of Ancient Texts


Selected Bibliography


Chronology


Index