Matthew Sharpe, Michael Ure

Philosophy as a Way of Life (eBook, ePUB)

History, Dimensions, Directions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350102163
• Artikelnr.: 61821194

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sharpe is is Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: The Ancients Ch. 1. Socrates and the Inception of
Philosophy as a Way of Life 1.1 the atopia of Socrates 1.2 a founding
exception 1.3 Socrates contra the Sophists 1.4 the elenchus as spiritual
exercise 1.5 care of the psyche 1.6 the sage and the Socratic paradoxes 1.7
the Socratic legacy Ch. 2. Epicureanism: Philosophy as a Divine Way of Life
2.1 Introduction 2.2 Epicureanism as way of life, therapy, and of writing
2.3 the turn inwards: against empty opinions, unnatural and unnecessary
desires 2.4 Epicurus' revaluation of happiness, pleasure and the good 2.5
the gods and the figure of the sage 2.6 the four-fold cure, and physics as
spiritual exercise 2.7 spiritual exercises in the garden 2.7` Criticisms
Ch. 3. Stoicism: Philosophy as the Art of Living 3.1 Wisdom, knowledge of
things human and divine, and an art of living 3.2 The Socratic lineage:
dialectic, the emotions, and the sufficiency of virtue 3.3 From Musonius
Rufus to Seneca 3.4 Epictetus' Paranetic Discourses, and his Handbook 3.5
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (Ta Eis Heauton) Ch. 4. Platonisms as Ways of
Life 4.1 Introduction: Platonisms 4.2 From Arcesilaus to Pyrrhonism:
scepticism as a way life 4.3 Cicero: the philosopher as rhetorician and
physician of the soul 4.4 Plotinus' philosophical mysticism 4.5 Boethius
and the end of ancient philosophy Part 2: medievals and early moderns Ch.
5. Philosophy as a way of life in the middle ages 5.1 On Christianity as
"philosophy" 5.2 Monastic philosophia, and the Christianisation of
spiritual exercises 5.3 Scholasticism, the theoreticisation of philosophia
, & the ascendancy of dialectic 5.4 Counter-strains: from Abelard to
Dante's Il Convivio Ch. 6. The Renaissance of Philosophy as a Way of Life
6.1 Philosophy, the humanisti, and the ascendancy of rhetoric 6.2
Petrarch's Christian-Stoic medicines of the mind 6.3 Montaigne: The
essayist as philosopher 6.4 Justus Lipsius' Neostoicism Ch. 7. Cultura
Animi in Early Modern Philosophy 7.1 The end of PWL (again)? 7.2 Francis
Bacon: the Idols and the Georgics of the mind 7.3 On Descartes, Method and
Meditations Ch. 8. Figures of the philosophe in the French enlightenment
8.1 "The philosophe" 8.2 Voltaire and the view from Sirius 8.3 Diderot and
his Seneca Part 3: the moderns Interlude: The Nineteenth Century Conflict
between PWL and University Philosophy Ch. 9. Schopenhauer: Philosophy as
the Way Out of Life 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Philosophy against sophistry
(again) 9.3 Two cheers for Stoicism 9.4 The Saint versus the Sage 9.5
Schopenhauerian salvation Ch. 10. Nietzsche: Philosophy as the Return to
Life 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Nietzsche's metaphilosophical meditations 10.3
Nietzsche's philosophy as a spiritual exercise 10.4 Nietzsche's spiritual
exercise: eternal recurrence 10.5 Conclusion Ch. 11. Foucault'sReinvention
of Philosophy as a Way of Life 11.1 Philosophical heroism: Foucault's
Cynics 11.2 Foucault's reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life 11.3
Genealogy as spiritual exercise 11.4 Conclusion Conclusion 1. PWL, today 2.
History, declines and rebirths 3. Criticisms 4. PWL of the future?