In my first comprehensive exam, I gave an overview of Hadot’s claim that ancient philosophy was conceived as a way life, as an existential path characterized by spiritual exercises rather than a set of merely theoretical or academic positions. 1,734 more words
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New Article Out in Explorations in Media Ecology
The March 2018 issue of Explorations in Media Ecology is now available online here. You can view the abstract for my article “Media Ecology and… 243 more words
On Pierre Hadot – A Draft Much too Long for a Blog Post
Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) was a French philosopher and historian of ancient philosophy, especially of Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Cynicism, Epicureanism, and Neoplatonism. He was a professor at the Collège de France in Paris where he also wrote and taught on a number of philosophers, including Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Merleau-Ponty, to name a few. 10,049 more words
The Irony of Practice: Hypocrisy
In a previous post, I pointed out the use of Socratic irony in Pierre Hadot’s writings on philosophy as a way of life involving spiritual exercises. 860 more words
Pierre Hadot on Socrates and Philosophy as a way of being
French Philosopher Pierre Hadot (February 21, 1922 – April 24, 2010), reminds us that ancient philosophy is vastly different from the way philosophy is taught today. 601 more words
The Practice of Irony in Pierre Hadot
Pierre Hadot is well-known for his idea that philosophy is not a merely professional endeavor or simply a system of ideas but is a way of living, a practice for which one must engage in “exercise” or “training” ( 1,874 more words
