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The Present Alone is Our Happiness, Second Edition - Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Present Alone is Our Happiness, Second Edition - Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy of the
past half-century, Pierre Hadot was adept at using ancient
philosophers to illuminate the relevance of their ideas to
contemporary life. This new edition of "The Present Alone is Our
Happiness," which has been significantly revised and expanded to
include two previously untranslated essays, is an ideal
introduction to some of Hadot's more scholarly work. In it, we
discover that to be an Epicurean is not merely to think like one;
it is to adopt a way of living where limiting desires is the
condition for happiness. Being an Aristotelian, similarly, is to
choose a life that involves contemplation, and being a Cynic is to
follow Diogenes in his refusal of quotidian convention and the
mentality of ordinary people. If so many ancient philosophers
founded schools, Hadot explains, it was precisely because they were
proposing how to live life on a daily basis. We learn here that the
history of philosophy has been something more than just that of a
discourse. The founding texts of Greek philosophy, after all, were
notes taken from oral exercises undertaken in concrete
circumstances and contexts, most often a dialogue between students
and specific interlocutors who meant to shed light on their
students' real existence. The immense contribution of this book,
which also traces Hadot's own personal itinerary in a touching
manner, is to remind us, through direct language and numerous
examples, what the theoretical aspect of philosophy often masks:
its vital and existential dimensions.
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