anxiety 1 86
monasticism 269-70
on death 187
as a philosophy 1 29
flight of the soul 243, 245
spiritual exercises 1 3 1 , 132, 1 33, 1 38,
physics 97
140: passions 1 35
Plato's model 68
monotheism 5
poetic meter 62
Montaigne, Michel de 33
rules of discourse 13
death, views on 96
sage 252
Hadot, influence on 278
universalism 226
Montgolfier brothers 239
world 257--8, 274
Morenz, Siegfried 22 1
Moses 74
Marcus Aurelius
Musonius Rufus 1 9 1
aesthetics 189-90, 25 1
bam1litv of life 1 85
names, Marcus Aurelius' views 1 86
co!lmic. consciousness 266
nature
306
Index
nature (cont.)
aesthetic 254-6
Marcus Aurelius on 1 89-90
everyday 252--4
Hadot on 283
persuasion 92
see also physics
Peter, St 8-9
Neoplatonism
Petrarch 33
being as infinitive and being as
Philo judaeus
participle, distinction · between S-6
exegesis 72
emergence 56
Platonic formulae, use of 65
exegesis 75
Philo of Alexandria
new meanings of earlier works 66
flight of the soul 240, 243-4
spiritual exercises 99, 1 00
Judaism as a philosophy 1 29
Stoic ethics, integration o f 1 36
philosophy as a way of life 265
Newman 277
set speeches 69
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
spiritual exercises 84, 86, 97-8
ancient philosophy tradition 272
universalism 184
erotic pedagogy 1 64
Philodemus 225
genius of the heart 1 70
philosopher, concepts of 30--4, 272
indirect communication I S i
physics 1 37-8
present, focus on 2 1 2, 235
and desire 1 2, 194
and Socrates 1 48, 1 5 1-2, 1 56, 1 67-70:
night of the soul 242-3
seductive powers 1 65-6; style
Marcus Aurelius 1 97
155-6
spiritual exercises 24-5
Stoicism 25-6
obedience 139-40
study, as spiritual exercise 87-8, 97-9
objective representation 187-9
Plato
opium, and Marcus Aurelius 180-1
being as infinite and being as participle,
oral tradition of philosophy 19-22, 23,
distinction between 5-6, 75
61-3
death, philosophy as training for 22,
Ori gen
28, 68, 95, 96-7, 24 1 , 269
Ambrose's translations 3
dialogue 20, 2 1 , 62, 90, 9 1 -3, 105:
Christianity as a philosophy 1 29
methodology 106
on Chrysippus 1 23-4n
discourse 28
conscience, examination of 1 34
exegesis 7 1 , 72, 73, 75
dogmas, disagreements 61
flight of the soul 240-2, 243
exegesis 72
and Moses 74
Gregory Thaumaturgus' praise 1 63-4
river of Heraclitus 1 82
Ovid
on Socrates 1 48, 149-50, 1 53: erotic
night of the soul 245
irony 1 58, 160, 1 6 1, 1 63
time a.c; a river 182
Timaeus, as model 68
universalism 184
paganism 4-5, 74-S
wisdom, nature of 57
Parain, Brice 93
Platonism
parenesis 106-7
Academy 1 06
PasL'll, Blaise 1 84
adaptations 65
Paul, St 66
exegetical phase 5
peace of mind 1 38
night of t he soul 242-3
Marcus Aureli us 229
Glaucos 102-3
Seneca 229
life, conduct of 58···9
Peguy, Charles 278
philosophical death 242
penitence 1 39
ri ver 1 82
percept ion
Sch11l1111t lci11m 63 -4
Index
307
Socrates' death 94
Proclus 61
spiritual exercises 99
Euclid's model 64, 68
spiritual progress 64
flight of the soul 24 �
Stoicism and Aristotelianism,
treatises 64
absorption of 56
Pythagoreans 9
theory and practice, relationship
between 60
Quincey, Thomas De 181-2, 1 83, 1 84
pleasure, Epicurean attitudes 88-9,
Quintillian 265
222-(), 268
Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex 272
Plotinus
Ambrose's translations 3, 5 I
Rabbow, Paul 1 26
dialogue 2, 22
Ramus, Petrus 49, 52
discourse 28-9
reading, as spiritual exercise 86, 101-9
exegesis 72, 73, 74
relaxation, Epicureans 88
Hadot's interest in 279, 280, 28 1 , 285
Renan, Ernest 1 79--80, 247
methodology 1 06
research, as spiritual exercise 86
Plato's text, use of 65
Revelations 72
spiritual exercises 99, JOO, IOI , 102, I07
rhetoric 21
structure of work for spiritual
and persuasion 92
progress 64
and spiritual exercises 1 27
theory and practice, relationship
Rilke, Rainer Maria 258, 278
between 60
Ritter, J. 254
Plutarch
Robin, Leon 226
flight of the soul 24 1
Rogatianus 57
spiritual exercises 59: curiosity, cure
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 259, 260
for 1 36; learning to live 86;
Rufus, Musonius I I In
physics 97--8
Rusticus, Quintus lunius 1 99-200
Polemon 267
Rutilus Rufus 272
Porphyry
Ruyer, R. 282-3
attention to God and oneself 1 32
being as infinitive and being as
sage
participle, distinction between 6, 75
nature of 57-8, 1 47, 226
exegesis 73
and the world 251�1
influence on late Christian thought 5 1
Sallustius I 04
nature and soul 144n
Scholasticism 72-3, !07, 270-1
on Plotinus 72, 1 06
Schopenhauer, Arthur 271 , 272
spiritual progress 99- 100, 1 37
science, world of 252---4
style 1 33
self-control 59
theory and prac..-tice, distinction
self-mastery, as spiritual exercise 86,
between 60
135
present, value of 69, 22 1-2, 259-60
Seneca
Christians 1 3 1 -2
belonging to the whole 208
Epicureans 69, 88, 209-10, 2 1 2,
eclecticism 210
222-{), 259-60, 268
Epicureanism l 24n
Goethe 69, 2 1 7, 220-- 1 , 222, 230--4
flight of the soul 240, 245
Marcus Aurelius 1 32, 226-8
joy 207, 225
Nietzsche 2 12, 235
objective representation 1 89
Seneca 228, 229
peace of mind 229
Stoics 69, 84-5, 212, 222, 226-30, 260,
present, value of 228, 229
268
river of being 1 82, 1 83
Priscianus 73---4
sage's life 58
308
Index
Seneca (contd)
flight o f th e soul 242-3
spiritual exercises: learning to die
Hadot's interest in 280-1
96; learning to live 86, 130;
life, conduct of 57, 58-9
physics as 98-9
and Marcus Aurelius: aesthetics
universalism 230
190; objective representation
wisdom 261
187-8, 189; river of being 182,
world 257, 26 1, 273
183; spiritual exercises 13, 14
serenity
meditation 59
Epictetus 136
new meanings of earlier works 65-6
Epicureans 88, 225
philosophical death 242
present, value of 221 , 222
philosophk"al discourse 25-6
Sextus 261 , 266
philosophy as a way of life 266-7,
Sileni 1 48, 1 61 , 162
S
268
implicius 27-8
Skepticism
pleasure and joy 207
life, conduct of 56-7
political ideas 274
, 1 04
philosophy as a way of life 266
premeditation on future evils 23
theory and practice, relationship