The Present Alone Is Our Happiness Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson |
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| Author:
| Hadot, Pierre
Carlier, Jeannie
Davidson, Arnold I. |
| Translator:
| Djaballah, Marc |
| Series title: | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-4836-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.