Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Present Alone is Our HappinessCondition: NewSubtitle: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. DavidsonISBN-10: 0804748357EAN: 9780804748353ISBN: 9780804748353Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/23/2008Description: In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy in the world today, Hadot is adept at using ancient philosophers to illuminate the relevance of their ideas to contemporary life. In this book, which is an ideal introduction to Hadot's more scholarly What is Ancient Philosophy?, we learn 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. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 408gAuthor: Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. DavidsonTranslator: Marc DjaballahContributor: Marc Djaballah (Translated by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Cultural Memory in the PresentRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Present Alone is Our Happiness
Title: The Present Alone is Our Happiness
Subtitle: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson
ISBN-10: 0804748357
EAN: 9780804748353
ISBN: 9780804748353
Release Date: 12/23/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Marc Djaballah
Contributor: Marc Djaballah (Translated by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Name: Present Alone Is Our Happiness : Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Philosophers, History & Surveys / General, Methodology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Movements / General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Jeannie Carlier, Pierre Hadot, Arnold I. Davidson
Subject Area: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Format: Hardcover
