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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Life of Pierre Hadot
Memories
The Present Volume
Notes
Chapter 2: Ancient Philosophers
How Can We Identify Ancient Philosophers?
The DPhA as a Sample of Ancient Philosophical Society
Discarding Intruders
What is a Philosopher, After All?
Chronological Interval
How Can Philosophers Be Dated?
A Simplified Mediterranean Map
Some Known Artifacts
Available Parameters
Gender Study
So Many Schools
Leading Schools
Schools in History
Greek Philosophers Saved by Direct Transmission
Where Did They Come From?
Where Did They Study?
Where Did They Teach?
Teacher and Students
Teaching and Book Writing
Philosophers on Stone
Statues and Portraits
Sidelines
Philosophers and Politics
Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 3: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Notes
Chapter 4: Charismatic Authority, Spiritual Guidance, and Way of Life in the Pythagorean Tradition
A Promising Field of Research: The Greco-Roman Tradition of “Guidance of the Soul”
Particularities of the Pythagorean Tradition: Variety, (Dis)Continuity, Source Problems
A Constant Factor: The Practice of the Pythagorean Way of Life as a Path Toward Spiritual Perfection
Pythagoras as “Guide in Education” and Beloved Master: The Testimony of Plato's Republic
Ipse Dixit: The Charismatic Authority of Pythagoras and its Basis
In Search of the Master's Authentic Words: The Primitive Catechism Contained in the Acousmata
A Set of Normative Prescriptions Intended to Inculcate a Disciplined Life Conduct56
A “Path Toward Perfection” Aiming at Personal Salvation
The “Communitarian” Dimension: The Pythagorean Sect as Locus for Education and Guidance
Toward a Rational Morality: The Avatars of Pythagorean Spiritual Guidance
A Digest of Spiritual Guidance in Verse Networked With Other Guidance Texts: The Pythagorean Golden Verses
Notes
Chapter 5: Alcibiades' Love
Notes
Chapter 6: Stoics and Bodhisattvas
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IV
Notes
Chapter 7: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Spiritual Exercises and the Aesthetic Analogy
Philosophy and Therapy
Plutarch and the Buddhists: Returning Oneself to the Present Moment
A Life Complete at Every Moment
Taming the self
Philosophy and the Ends of Life
Notes
Chapter 8: Approaching Islamic Philosophical Texts
Notes
Chapter 9: Philosophy and Self-improvement
Introduction: The Path of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy in Antiquity
A Medieval Shift?
Cartesian Continuities
The Scientific Turn
Notes
Chapter 10: Descartes' Meditations: Practical Metaphysics
Form and Method
Universal Doubt as an Exercise of Thought
Cogito: “Noticing” One's Own Thought
Attention and Knowledge of God
The Meditations as a Form of Life
Notes
Chapter 11: Leading a Philosophical Life in Dark Times
Nelson's Philosophy as a Way of Life
Nelson's Spiritual Exercises
Coda
Notes
Chapter 12: Philosophy as a Way of Life and Anti-philosophy
“Antiphilosophy”
Does Defining Philosophy as a Way of Life Mean Being an Antiphilosopher?
Antiphilosophy or Archphilosophy?
Notes
Chapter 13: Philosophy and Gestalt Psychotherapy
Introduction
Theory in Psychotherapy
The Origins of Gestalt Psychotherapy
The Central Theoretical Commitments of Gestalt Psychotherapy
Philosophical Reflection on Gestalt Psychotherapy
Note
Chapter 14: Wittgenstein's Temple
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Notes
Chapter 15: Observations on Pierre Hadot's Conception of Philosophy as a Way of Life
Introduction
The Philosophy of Martin O'Hagan
An Innocent in Vancouver: My Encounter with Analytic Philosophy
Hadot, Analytic Philosophy, and the Big Questions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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