Philosophy is a mode of life, an act of living, and a way of being. Modern philosophy has forgotten this tradition, and philosophical discourse has all but overtaken philosophy as a way of life. Philosophy is not just an intellectual discipline, which can get abstract and divorced from the real world, but is most importantly a way of life that teaches us how to best live our lives.

Philosophy is a mode of existing in the world, which has to be practiced at each instant, and the goal of which is to transform the whole of the individual’s life. Real wisdom does not merely cause us to know: it makes us “be” in a different way.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

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📝 Sources

- Hadot, P. (1995). Philosophy as a way of life: Spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault.
- Hadot, P. (2002). What is ancient philosophy? Harvard University Press.
- Irvine, W. B. (2008). A guide to the good life: The ancient art of Stoic joy. Oxford University Press.
- Davidson, A. I. (1990). Spiritual exercises and ancient philosophy: An introduction to Pierre Hadot. Critical inquiry, 16(3), 475-482.
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- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoplatonism/

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⌛ Timestamps

(0:00) Introduction
(2:18) Philosophy as a Way of Life
(7:12) Socrates
(8:53) Master of Dialogue: Know Thyself
(13:30) Plato
(15:58) Idealism: Platonic Forms
(17:15) Parable of the Cave
(19:33) Plato’s Cave in The Matrix
(20:16) Plato’s Tripartite Theory of the Soul
(22:36) Philosophy as an Exercise of Death
(24:56) Aristotle
(27:06) Hellenistic Schools
(28:25) Cynicism
(31:45) Pyrrhonism
(34:46) Stoicism
(39:45) Premeditatio Malorum
(41:03) Memento Mori
(42:24) Voluntary Discomfort
(43:54) Epicureanism
(50:12) Similarities Epicureanism & Stoicism
(50:57) Neoplatonism
(57:45) View from Above: Cosmic Consciousness

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