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This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.

Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 17/06/1995
    ISBN13: 9780631180333, 978-0631180333
    ISBN10: 0631180338

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.

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