Philosophy As a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault [illustrated] 063118032X, 0631180338, 9780631180326

125 47

English Pages 309 Year 1995

Philosophy As a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault [illustrated]
063118032X, 0631180338, 9780631180326

0 0 0
Like this paper and download? You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up

What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts fr

125 10 507KB Read more

Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the th

349 67 4MB Read more

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Dumm asks. His inquiry takes us beyond social circumstances into the deeper forces tha

141 69 355KB Read more

This book explores how we can find meaning in life through “care of desire” and “emotional sharing” that provide the bas

107 33 12MB Read more

This collection of writings from Pierre Hadot (1992-2010) presents, for the first time, previously unreleased and in som

517 73 2MB Read more

For Raymond Geuss, philosophers’ attempts to bypass normal ways of thinking—to point out that the question being asked i

140 106 1MB Read more

Focusing on Christianity’s core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward w

117 80 871KB Read more

The idea of philosophy as a ‘way of life’ is not a new one. From the first recorded philosophy by Plato, there has been

161 29 3MB Read more

The idea of philosophy as a 'way of life' is not a new one. From the first recorded philosophy by Plato, there

385 31 4MB Read more

In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life in the Western tradition, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure

118 44 4MB Read more