Philosophy As a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault [illustrated] 063118032X, 0631180338, 9780631180326

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Philosophy As a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault [illustrated]
063118032X, 0631180338, 9780631180326

What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts fr

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The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is r

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This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in som

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Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and inte

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The 13 contributions of this collective offer new and challenging ways of reading well-known and more neglected texts on

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Introduction : the picture of morality -- A dialogue on war -- Bergson's critical philosophy -- The closed society

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The idea of philosophy as a ‘way of life’ is not a new one. From the first recorded philosophy by Plato, there has been

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Michel Foucault's historical and philosophical investigations have gone through many phases, the archaeological, th

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Explores the potential for an original ethics based on Deleuze’s unique interpretation and use of Kantian critique Amon

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