What Is Ancient Philosophy?
A Theory, Cultural, Religion book. Being a better dialectician meant not only being skillful at...
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...
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- Pages: 384 pages
- ISBN: 9780674013735 / 674013735
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Being a better dialectician meant not only being skillful at invention or at denouncing tricks in reasoning. Before anything else, it meant knowing how to dialogue, together with all the demands that this entails: recognizing the presence and the rights of one's interlocutor, basing one's replies on what the interlocutor admits he knows, and therefore agreeing with him at each stage of the discussion. Above all, it meant submitting oneself to the demands and norms of reason and the search for truth; finally, it meant recognizing the absolute value of...
Forgot about the importance of a commute to get reading done! I just finished this book on the commuter rail to Boston. This is the first book in the Stoned Philosophers Book Club discussion group happening at a local bar near you. I am sure that I'll have much more to say after bookclub meets, but in general, I found this book to be... A philosopher is someone who loves wisdom, someone who strives to live wisely; key here is the word "live." The ancient philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Zeno the Stoic, Diogenes the Cynic, Pyrrho the Skeptic, Plotinus and Porphyry, and those who came after them) thought that philosophy was first and foremost about... Read for Humanities class.
