On Thu 9 November, at 7 pm AEDT (9 am London 9 Nov, 6pm New York 8 Nov), please join us for a zoom forum on Christopher Gill’s Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance. Gill’s book is arguably the most significant text on Stoic ethics for a generation, not only challenging […]
Over the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as a way of life (PWL) has gained undeniable prominence in contemporary philosophical debates. Pierre Hadot forged the notion to denote the specific way in which ancient philosophers conceived of and practiced philosophy, stressing its performative character and its potential for self-transformation on the basis of […]
The conference Spiritual exercises, self-transformation and liberation in philosophy, theology and religion is inspired by Pierre Hadot’s pioneering work on philosophy as a way of life (manière de vivre). It builds on the significance Hadot attributed to spiritual exercises (exercices spirituels), arguing that these were, beside philosophical discourse, constitutive of philosophical enterprise in Greco-Roman antiquity and beyond. […]
