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Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Blogs on translating Ilsetraut Hadot’s famous work on Seneca & the ancient practice of philosophy as the spiritual direction. Each entry considers one chapter or section of this groundbreaking work as it is being translated, so English-reading Stoics can get a sense of the text.

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Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Jan 21, 2023

If philosophy is a way of life, when and why did theoretical philosophy develop?

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Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Oct 24, 2022

Are people good/evil by nature, by nurture, or both?

Seneca and the Stoics on the predisposition to…

Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Oct 9, 2022

Seneca on whether it is possible or desirable to extinguish all emotion

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Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Sep 26, 2022

Seneca on ethics & its parts

Stoics, and especially Roman Stoics like Seneca, are often supposed to have reduced philosophy to ethics…

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Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Sep 25, 2022

Seneca, Physics, and the (Teaching of the) Parts of Philosophy

Last time, we saw that Ilsetraut Hadot argues that the Stoic conception of philosophy, with its three parts of physics, ethics, and logic, prevents any simple hierarchization between the different philosophical studies…

Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Sep 20, 2022

Seneca & the Stoics on the interconnectedness of the parts of philosophy

Last time, we saw Ilsetraut Hadot situating the Stoic conception of virtue between a Socratic “intellectualist” position — which would suggest that knowledge is sufficient (enough) for virtue and…

Heroes in the Seaweed in Seneca and spiritual direction (philosophy as a way of life)

Jul 14, 2022

Hadot on Seneca Letters 94–95: Seneca’s “Discourse on Method”?

If philosophy is a way of life, or spiritual direction of students, so they can live as well as think more philosophically, doesn’t that mean talk of “method” is up in the air?