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The present alone is our happiness : conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson

By: Hadot, Pierre.
Contributor(s): Djaballah, Marc [tr.] | Chase, Michael [ed.].
Series: Cultural memory in the present.Publisher: Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2011Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxi, 207 p. ; ill., 23 cm.ISBN: 9780804775434.Subject(s): Interviews | France | Ancient philosophy | Neoplatonism | Spiritual exercises | StoicismDDC classification: 194 Summary: In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, which also serves as an introduction to Pierre Hadot's more scholarly works, Hadot explains that for the Ancients, philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life.
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In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, which also serves as an introduction to Pierre Hadot's more scholarly works, Hadot explains that for the Ancients, philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life.

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