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Revisioning Reason and Spiritual Exercise

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 25 Sep 20

Revisioning Reason and Spiritual ExerciseThe French philosopher and historian Pierre Hadot dedicated his career to rendering an image of philosophy as a way of life. This way of life, Hadot often underscored, was anchored to a set of spiritual exercises that were neither merely preparations for nor complements to philosophical theory. Instead, the practices were themselves the vehicles by which philosophical illumination could be achieved. Hadot would speak of both inner and outer expressions of practice, as different ways of achieving a transfiguration of the self, and especially of realizing a metamorphosis in our way of seeing the world.[1] These …

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Revisioning Reason and Spiritual ExerciseThe French philosopher and historian Pierre Hadot dedicated his career to rendering an image of philosophy as a way of life. This way of life, Hadot often underscored, was anchored to a set of spiritual exercises that were neither merely preparations for nor complements to philosophical theory. Instead, the practices were themselves the vehicles by which …

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Philosophy: The Practice for Death and Dying for The Stoa

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Apr 20

A talk on Plato’s Phaedo, as well as the work of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Merton, and others.Continue reading on Medium »

A talk on Plato’s Phaedo, as well as the work of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Merton, and others.Continue reading on Medium »

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