Philosophy as a way of life : history, dimensions, directions
Matthew Sharpe
Bok · Engelsk · 2021
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| Omfang | ix, 407 sider : illustrasjoner i svart/hvitt
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| Opplysninger | Part 1: The Ancients: Ch. 1. Socrates and the Inception of Philosophy as a Way of Life ; Ch. 2. Epicureanism: Philosophy as a Divine Way of Life ; Ch. 3. Stoicism: Philosophy as the Art of Living ; Ch. 4. Platonisms as Ways of Life ; Part 2: medievals and early moderns: Ch. 5. Philosophy as a way of life in the middle ages ; Ch. 6. The Renaissance of Philosophy as a Way of Life ; Ch. 7. Cultura Animi in Early Modern Philosophy ; Ch. 8. Figures of the philosophe in the French enlightenment ; Part 3: the modernsInterlude: The Nineteenth Century Conflict between PWL and University Philosophy: h. 9. Schopenhauer: Philosophy as the Way Out of Life ; Ch. 10. Nietzsche: Philosophy as the Return to Life ; Ch. 11. Foucault'sReinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life ; Conclusion: 1. PWL, today 2. History, declines and rebirths 3. Criticisms 4. PWL of the future?. - In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life in the Western tradition, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us through the history of the idea from Socrates and Plato, via the medievals, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Foucault and Hadot. They examine the kinds of practical exercises each thinker recommended to transform their philosophy into manners of living.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.
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| ISBN | 9781350102149. - 9781350102156
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| ISBN(galt) | 9781350102132 (PDF ebook). - 9781350102163 (ePub ebook)
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