UID:
almahu_9949074238602882
Format:
1 online resource (416 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350102170
Content:
"The idea of philosophy as a 'way of life' is not a new one. From the first recorded philosophy by Plato, there has been a tradition of thinking about philosophy as pointing us towards the good life, happiness and an ethical existence. But where does this notion that philosophy has anything to offer in terms of guiding us in how to live and live well come from? In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us us through the history of the idea from Plato and the Buddha to Foucault, Hadot and Zizek. They examine the kinds of practical exercises each thinker recommended and practiced to transform their philosophy into manners of living and acting. Philosophy as a Way of Life also examines the recent resurgence of thinking about philosophy as a practical, lived reality and why this ancient tradition still has so much relevance and power in the contemporary world."--
Note:
Philosophy as a way of life-a new, ancient paradigm -- Part 1. The ancients. 1. Socrates ; 2. Epicureanism ; 3. Stoicism and the art of living. 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 The Socratic lineage ; 3.3 From Musonius Rufus to Seneca ; 3.4 Epictetus' discourses and handbook ; 3.5 Marcus Aurelius' meditations ; 4. Platonisms as ways of life. 4.1. Platonisms ; 4.2. Scepticisms, from academic to Pyrrhonian ; 4.3. Cicero, philosophy as medicina animi ; 4.4. Plotinus: mysticism as a way of life ; 4.5. Boethius and the end of antiquity ; 5. Philosophy as a way of life in the Middle Ages. 5.1. Christian philosophia? ; 5.2. Monasticism and the spiritual exercises ; 5.3. Scholasticism and the theoreticisation of philosophy ; 5.4. Averroeism and philosophy for the laity -- Part 2. The moderns. 6. The Renaissances of philosophy as a way of life ; 6.1. Humanism, philosophy and rhetoric ; 6.2. Petrarch's Christianised stoicism ; 6.3. Montaigne, the essayist as philosopher ; 6.4. Justus Lipsius' Neostoicism ; 7. The early moderns. 7.1. Francis Bacon, the novum organum and the Georgics of the mind ; 7.2. Spinoza ; 7.3. The Royal Society virtuosi and Shaftesbury's exercises ; 8. Figures of the philosophe in the French Enlightenment. 8.1 "The philosophe" of Du Marsais, and of the enlightenment ; 8.2. The patriarch, Voltaire: philosophy between Sirius and Earth ; 8.3. "The" philosophe, Diderot, and his Seneca ; 9. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Part 3. 20th century reinventions. 10. Camus and existentialism ; 11. Slavoj Zizek and the idea of the real ; 12. Philosophy as therapy -- Conclusion: An apology for philosophy as a way of life.
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350102149
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350102170
URL:
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