Ancient Philosophy: A Complete 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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📝 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.
- Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Ep. 5, 6 & 7 - @johnvervaeke
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- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - Eugene Weber
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- Socrates & Plato's Philosophy - Myles Burnyeat & Bryan Magee (1987)
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- Neoplatonism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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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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