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- [Home](https://www.ispwl.com/) - International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life Discover more The International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) was founded in 2025 to promote the study, practice, and public dissemination of philosophy understood not merely as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of living and transforming oneself. Its mission is
- [Society News](https://www.ispwl.com/news/) - News Workshop-Performance Project SEPTEMBER 4, 2026 La Primavera: A Night of Renaissance Music, Myth, and Philosophy is Palinode’s first public workshop-performance project in Portland. The event will take place on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 7:30pm at the Historic Alberta House. Built around Botticelli’s Primavera, the evening brings together live Renaissance and early Baroque music, mythic storytelling, projected
- [Contact](https://www.ispwl.com/contact/) - Join Us To become a member of the Society and receive updates about our news, events, and publications, please submit the form below. Contact Us General information ISPWL | ispwl@ispwl.com Coordination Marta Faustino | msffaustino@gmail.com Permanent Seminar Eli Kramer | eliornerkramer@gmail.com Social Media Pierrick Simon | lemiroirtranquille@outlook.fr Scientific Secretary Matteo Stettler | mjstettler@fcsh.unl.pt Scientific Secretary Lucas
- [Team](https://www.ispwl.com/people/) - Executive Board Michael Chase CNRS Centre Jean Pépin Simone D'Agostino Gregorian University Marta Faustino Port. Catholic University Eli Kramer University of Wrocław Laura Anna Macor University of Verona Laura Mueller West Texas A&M University Pawel Odyniec Karlstadt University John Sellars University of London Matthew Sharpe Aus. Catholic University Hélder Telo University of Beira Interior Fellows
- [Publications](https://www.ispwl.com/publications/) - Publications Brill Series Philosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies Bloomsbury Series Re-Inventing Philosophy as a Way of Life ETS Series Filosofie dell'esercizio Other books Special Issues Journal Articles Angle, Stephen, “The Possibility of Sagehood: Reverence and Ethical Perfection in Zhu Xi’s Thought”, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1998, pp. 281-303. Angle,
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- [Permanent Seminar](https://www.ispwl.com/permanent-seminar/) - PWL International Seminar Date: Every last Thursday of the month | 8 PM (CET) Location: ONLINE The PWL International Seminar is a monthly online lecture-and-discussion series convened by the International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) in collaboration with Palinode. Building on the earlier “Mapping PWL” seminar series, the relaunch brings together
- [Recordings](https://www.ispwl.com/recordings/) - Recordings PWL International Seminar Ongoing More Info Recordings PWL International Seminar 2023-25 More Info Recordings Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: Final Conference 16-18 Oct 2024 More Info Recordings What Exactly Is Philosophy as a Way of Life? Boundaries, Crossroads, Deadlocks 5-6 July 2023 More Info Recordings Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical
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- [Projects](https://www.ispwl.com/projects/) - PWL Collective Projects Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach FCT Grant | 2023-25 | NOVA University of Lisbon | € 49 969,95 PI: Marta Faustino The project explored the value of PWL for reinterpreting the history of philosophy and reshaping its teaching, mapping diverse philosophical ways of life
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- [About](https://www.ispwl.com/about/) - The Society The International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) was founded in 2025 to promote the study, practice, and public dissemination of philosophy understood not merely as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of living and transforming oneself. Its mission is to foster dialogue between scholars, practitioners, and the wider
- [Final Conference: Media](https://www.ispwl.com/final-conference-media/) - Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: Final Conference 16-18 Oct 2024 Poster Programme
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## Events

- [PWL International Seminar #4](https://www.ispwl.com/event/pwl-international-seminar-4/) - PWL INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR #4 “Affability, Attention to the Present and Cosmic Consciousness: Byung-Chul Han and Philosophy as a Way of Life” LUCAS NASCIMENTO MACHADO ONLINE | June 25 | 8 PM (CET) Abstract In our presentation, we will discuss the similarities in Hadot's understanding the philosophical way of life and Han's understanding of Freundlichkeit ("Affability")
- [PWL International Seminar #3](https://www.ispwl.com/event/pwl-international-seminar-3/) - PWL INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR #3 “Intellectual Happiness in XIV-century Bologna: Reading Gentile of Cingoli and Related Texts” MATTEO STETTLER ONLINE | May 28 | 8 PM (CET) Abstract This presentation examines the rediscovery of philosophy as a way of life in Dante's Italy, engaging critically with Pierre Hadot's thesis that the medieval university and the rise
- [PWL International Seminar #2](https://www.ispwl.com/event/pwl-international-seminar-2/) - PWL INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR #2 “Practice Grounds for Living and Community-Oriented Self-Formation: The Role of Institutes of Higher Learning” KAM BELLAMY & PHILIP FRANCIS ONLINE | April 30 | 8 PM (CET) Abstract Across the global tradition ISPWL brings into dialogue, “philosophy as a way of life” names not only a field of study, but efforts
- [PWL International Seminar #1](https://www.ispwl.com/event/pwl-international-seminar-1/) - PWL INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR #1 "Hermeneutics as a Way of Life: Philosophy and Leadership in an Age of Instrumental Individualism" DAVID HANEY ONLINE | March 26 | 8 PM (CET) Abstract This talk is based on my forthcoming book, Reading Philosophy and Practicing Leadership: Applied Hermeneutics in an Age of Instrumental Individualism. “Instrumental individualism”
- [La filosofia come modo di vita nell'età dell'Illuminismo / Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Age of the Enlightenment](https://www.ispwl.com/event/la-filosofia-come-modo-di-vita-nelleta-dellilluminismo-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-in-the-age-of-the-enlightenment/) - Arising from the collaboration between the University of Verona, the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of the European Enlightenment of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, this conference is the first scientific initiative co-organized by the ISPWL. The aim of the conference is to
- [La filosofia come modo di vita. Nuove frontiere della ricerca in Italia](https://www.ispwl.com/event/la-filosofia-come-modo-di-vita-nuove-frontiere-della-ricerca-in-italia/) - Il workshop intende mettere a confronto le/gli studiose/i italiane/i attualmente impegnate/i in ricerche innovative nell'ambito della cosiddetta PWL (Philosophy as a Way of Life), resa in italiano con l'espressione "Filosofia come modo di vita". La PWL sta guadagnando credibilità e centralità nel panorama internazionale, e il contributo italiano è riconosciuto come cruciale su più fronti:
- ["Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: Final Conference"](https://www.ispwl.com/event/mapping-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-final-conference/) - he final conference of the project «Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach» will bring together team members, consultants, and collaborators of the project in order to present the most significant results achieved in the last two years. In line with the project’s main objective, the conference will map
- ["What Exactly is Philosophy as a Way of Life? Boundaries, Crossroads, Deadlocks"](https://www.ispwl.com/event/what-exactly-is-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-boundaries-crossroads-deadlocks/) - 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
- [Christopher Gill's "Learning to Live Naturally": Online Forum With the Author](https://www.ispwl.com/event/christopher-gills-learning-to-live-naturally-online-forum-with-the-author/) - 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
- [“Spiritual Exercises, Self-Transformation and Liberation in Philosophy, Theology and Religion”](https://www.ispwl.com/event/spiritual-exercises-self-transformation-and-liberation-in-philosophy-theology-and-religion/) - 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.
- [Philosophy as a Way of Life: A New Frontier in the History of Philosophy](https://www.ispwl.com/event/philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-a-new-frontier-in-the-history-of-philosophy/) - The workshop intends to enhance the metaphilosophical, historiographical and hermeneutic potential of the paradigm now known as “Philosophy as a Way of Life” (PWL), taking into consideration authors of modernity (Malebranche), theoretical problems (theory/practice, transformation) and interactions with other disciplines (physics). Organization: Prof. Laura Anna Macor (lauraanna.macor@univr.it) Speakers: Marta Faustino, Simone D’Agostino, Guido Cusinato, Michael
- [Philosophy as a Way of Life: New Directions in Research](https://www.ispwl.com/event/philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-new-directions-in-research/) - This three-day event brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss new directions in historical, historiographical, philosophical and metaphilosophical research on philosophy as a way of life, the approach to ancient philosophy inaugurated by Ilsetraut and Pierre Hadot.
- [Book Presentation: Laura Macor, "Il mestiere di uomo. La concezione pratica della filosofia nel tardo illuminismo tedesco"](https://www.ispwl.com/event/book-presentation-laura-macor-il-mestiere-di-uomo-la-concezione-pratica-della-filosofia-nel-tardo-illuminismo-tedesco/) - On December 13, 2023 (2h30 PM, Rome time) Laura Macor will present her recently published book Il mestiere di uomo. La concezione pratica della filosofia nel tardo illuminismo tedesco (Morcelliana, Brescia 2023). The book presentation will take place at the University of Verona, but online attendance will be possible. Please contact Prof. Davide Poggi to receive the link. The event will be
- [Juliusz Domański's Books Launch Event](https://www.ispwl.com/event/juliusz-domanskis-books-launch-event/) - Official launch of the English editions of Juliusz Domański’s pioneering works, newly published by Brill in the ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life: Texts and Studies’ book series: Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Erasmus and Philosophy. On the Concept of Philosophy Developed by Erasmus

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