present, value of 69, 84-5, 2 1 2,
between 60
222, 226-30, 260, 268
Socrates
sage 25 1, 252
death 93-4, 1 66-7, 1 68-70
self-<:ontrol 59
dialogue 20, 23, 89-9 1 , 92-3, 149
spiritual exercises 1 26: happiness
figure of 1 47: daimon 1 64; dialectical
103; learning to die 96; learning
irony 1 49-58; Dionysos 1 69-70;
to live 82-7
erotic irony I 58-65; and Nietzsche
spiritual perfection 1 36
165-70;
physical appearance 147-8; seductive
reaching, texts written for 63
powers 165-6
theology 137-8
"know thyself" maxim 20, 90
theoretical discourse 29
Logos, faithfulness to 93
theoretical life 29
philosophy as a way of life 26(>, 269,
Therapcutae 1 29
28 1
theriac and Marcus Aurelius 1 80-1
unclas.'lifiability 57
wisdom 23 5, 265
theses 63
Thomism 27
soul
flight of 238-48
Thoreau 33
immateriality and immortality 100- 1
Thurot, Charles 73-4
Spinoza, Benedict d e 27 1-2
treatises 64
Euclid's model 68
truth
philosophy as a way of life 272, 275
authentic texts 73-4
spiritual exercises 33
pagan and Christian conceptions 4
Stoicism
absorption into Platonism 56
Ulpian 57
cosmic consciousness 266
universities, nature of 32, 271}- I , 278-9
death, exercise for 68
dogmas, disagreements 6 1
Vcync, Paul 25
Epictetus 1 9 1 -2
view from ah<wc 23H ·48
exegetical phase 5
Vohnirc 25011
features 34, JS
wi11dom
Index
309
love of 265
Xenocrates 266
nature of 57, 58, 1 03, 228, 261
Xenophon I I 7n
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann 1 7,
flight of the soul 240
1 8, 280, 285
on Socrates 23, 1 55, 1 58, 1 67
worry, Epicureans' attitudes 88
Xylander IO
writing, therapeutic values 209-1 1
Antony 135, 209, 2 1 1
Zeno l l3n
Foucault 209-1 0
Zopyrus 148
Marcus Aurelius 1 95
9 111
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Document Outline
Contents
Translator's Note
Abbreviations
Introduction: Pierre Hadot and the Spiritual Phenomenon of Ancient Philosophy by Arnold I. Davidson
1 Method and Practices of Interpretation in the History of Ancient Philosophy and Theology
2 Spiritual Exercises
Notes
Part I: Method
1. Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy
Notes
2. Philosophy, Exegesis, and Creative Mistakes
Notes
Part II: Spiritual Exercises
3. Spiritual Exercises
1 Learning to Live
2 Learning to Dialogue
3 Learning to Die
4 Leaming How to Read
Notes
4. Ancient Spiritual Exercises and "Christian Philosophy"
Notes
Part III: Figures
5. The Figure of Socrates
1 Silenus
2 Eros
3 Dionysos
Notes
6. Marcus Aurelius
1 The Meditations as a Spiritual Exercise
2 Epictetus
3 Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus
Notes
7. Reflections on the Idea of the "Cultivation of the Self"
Notes
Part IV: Themes
8. "Only the Present is our Happiness": The Value of the Present Instant in Goethe and in Ancient Philosophy
Notes
9. The View from Above
Notes
10. The Sage and the World
1 Definition of the Problem
2 The World of Science and the World of Everyday Perception
3 Aesthetic Perception
4 Spectator Novus
S The Instant
6 The Sage and the World
Notes
11. Philosophy as a Way of Life
Notes
Postscript: An Interview with Pierre Hadot
Notes
Select Bibliography
ANTHOLOGIES
ANCIENT AUTHORS
MODERN AUTHORS
Index