What is ancient philosophy?

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What is ancient philosophy?

Pierre Hadot ; translated by Michael Chase

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002

Other Title

Qu'est-ce que la philosophie antique?

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Translation of: Qu'est-ce que la philosophie antique?. Paris : Gallimard, 1995

Selected bibliography: p. [329]-330

Includes index

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Description

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view of ancient philosophy - and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all tended toward one goal: to provide a means for achieving happiness in this life, by transforming the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world.

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  • NCID
    BA60030477
  • ISBN
    • 0674007336
  • LCCN
    2002017193
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 362 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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