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

Heroes in the Seaweed

On the differences between ancient and modern conceptions of psychology

Heroes in the Seaweed

Why then did Plato write dialogues?

The three pedagogical functions of the Platonic texts

Heroes in the Seaweed

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

Heroes in the Seaweed

Philosophy, medicine for the soul

The criticism and debt of the ancient philosophers to ancient medicine and dietetics

Seneca therefore wrote the ways that he did because he aimed to do different things with his words than…

Heroes in the Seaweed

Why Did Seneca Write as He Did?

Exhortation, the power of the sentence, and the interplay between…

Heroes in the Seaweed

Parenesis, philosophy as a way of life, and (modern) philosophy

Seneca, the prehistory of…

Heroes in the Seaweed

Of a Complication Surrounding “The Spiritual Guide”

The story so far, the path ahead

Heroes in the Seaweed

Friendship and philosophical counselling in the ancient world

Seneca’s philosophical practice and its…

Heroes in the Seaweed

Clash of the wills in Seneca

4. Hadot contra Inwood

Heroes in the Seaweed

Clash of the wills concerning Seneca

3. Boulêsis, Thelêsis — voluntas

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