It’s been just over a year since I posted anything new here, but that’s not for lack of study or engagement on my part. Work—both intellectual and vocational—continues apace. 1,361 more words
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The Mystical, The Existential
Dear Bella Levenshteyn
I was reading Pierre Hadot’s Plotinus, or The Simplicity of Vision, and the following passage reminded me of our recent discussion at Café Disponibilidade. 353 more words
What Is Ancient Philosophy? By Pierre Hadot
A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy–and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. 222 more words
Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot Book Review
Philosophy as a Way of Life – Pierre Hadot
Let’s get this out of the way first: the title of this book is rubbish and suggests some kind of hippy new age feel-good story. 856 more words
DIALECTIC - AS A MEANS FOR SELF-TRANSFORMATION
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“In Plato’s time, dialectics was a debating technique subject to precise rules. A “thesis” was proposed-an interrogative proposition such as: Can virtue be taught? 302 more words
My Journals in The 7th Python
I quote extensively from my journals in The 7th Python. I started a journal in 2001 after writing The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations were basically his journal entries, and Professor Pierre Hadot had written in… 885 more words
Commentary on the Enneads of Plotinus
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Join us for a chapter-by-chapter commentary on The Enneads of Plotinus. But first things first, we must seek to understand the philosophical foundation of this work. 57 more words
