Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life

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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📚 Recommended Reading

▶ Philosophy as a Way of Life - Hadot
▶ What is Ancient Philosophy? - Hadot
▶ The Republic - Plato
▶ Outlines of Pyrrhonism - Sextus Empiricus
▶ Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
▶ Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
▶ Enchiridion - Epictetus
▶ A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine
▶ The Art of Happiness - Epicurus
▶ The Enneads - Plotinus

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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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⌛ 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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It is a state of being in which the logos and Eros can flow through us without being bound by the attachment and the illusion of sepperation.
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[gloomyremnants]

Haile Selassie the final emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) of the Solomonic dynasty is a prime example of one who was able to balance Reason (man, principles) with Thumos (righteous courage, an army) to conquer the Appetite (monster, Romans) He was called the Lion of Judah and is depicted riding a white horse and slaying a dragon. Ancient philosophy is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church; modern philosophy is the Catholic Church. I would encourage anyone and everyone to read some of his quotes

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Philosophy is a very wide area, a very wide subject, but the best definition after 6 years of studying philosophy, for me, is that philosophy is a study of ideas. Philosophy is not a science, and there is very good reason for that, any science has to have in its foundations a few axioms, propositions that are taken as such, without the need for proof, or evidence... Philosophy has no such axioms, which is explained in the "Introduction in philosophy" by Eugen Fink... Of course, some may claim that logic is science, logic is part of philosophy, or at least that is how I studied that field, but logic (and perhaps math) is just an "organon", a tool that science is using.