Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns – Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Ancients and Moderns – Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot 

Michael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark & Michael McGhee (eds), New York: Wiley, 2013, 344 p.

Description

This unique collection of essays on the late Pierre Hadot’s revolutionary approach to studying and practising philosophy traces the links between his work and that of thinkers from Wittgenstein to the French postmodernists. It shows how his secular spiritual exercises expand our horizons, enabling us to be in a fuller, more authentic way.

  • Comprehensive treatment of a neglected theme: philosophy’s practical relevance in our lives
  • Interdisciplinary analysis reflects the wide influence of Hadot’s thought
  • Explores the links between Hadot’s ideas and those of a wealth of ancient and modern thinkers, including the French postmodernists
  • Offers a practical ‘third way’ in philosophy beyond the dichotomy of Continental and analytical traditions

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Table of contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by John H. Spencer

CHAPTER 1

Introduction – Michael Chase

CHAPTER 2

Ancient Philosophers: A First Statistical Survey – Richard Goulet

CHAPTER 3

Philosophy as a Way of Life: As Textual and More Than Textual Practice – Richard Shusterman

CHAPTER 4

Charismatic Authority, Spiritual Guidance, and Way of Life in the Pythagorean Tradition – Constantinos Macris

CHAPTER 5

Alcibiades’ Love – Jan Zwicky

CHAPTER 6

Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions – Matthew T. Kapstein

CHAPTER 7

Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from the Buddha to Tagore – Jonardon Ganeri

CHAPTER 8

Approaching Islamic Philosophical Texts: Reading Mullā Sadrā Šīrāzī (d. 1635) with Pierre Hadot – Sajjad H. Rizvi

CHAPTER 9

Philosophy and Self‐improvement: Continuity and Change in Philosophy’s Self‐conception from the Classical to the Early‐modern Era – John Cottingham

CHAPTER 10

Descartes’ Meditations: Practical Metaphysics: The Father of Rationalism in the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises – Theodor Kobusch

CHAPTER 11

Leading a Philosophical Life in Dark Times: The Case of Leonard Nelson and His Followers – Fernando Leal

CHAPTER 12

Philosophy as a Way of Life and Anti‐philosophy – Gwenaëlle Aubry

CHAPTER 13

Philosophy and Gestalt Psychotherapy – Paul O’Grady

CHAPTER 14

Wittgenstein’s Temple: Or How Cool is Philosophy? – Michael McGhee

CHAPTER 15

Observations on Pierre Hadot’s Conception of Philosophy as a Way of Life – Michael Chase

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.wiley.com/en-ge/Philosophy+as+a+Way+of+Life%3A+Ancients+and+Moderns+Essays+in+Honor+of+Pierre+Hadot-p-9781405161619

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Publié le par Luciana Soares

Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

Fritz Graf & Sarah Iles Johnston, London: Routledge, 2013

Description

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it.  These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to the second century CE, have been part of the scholarly debate on ancient afterlife beliefs since the end of the nineteenth century.  Recent finds and analysis of the texts have reshaped our understanding of their purpose and of the perceived afterlife. The tablets belonged to those who had been initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus Bacchius and relied heavily upon myths narrated in poems ascribed to the mythical singer Orpheus.  After providing the Greek text and a translation of all the available tablets, the authors analyze their role in the mysteries of Dionysus, and present an outline of the myths concerning the origins of humanity and of the sacred texts that the Greeks ascribed to Orpheus.  Related ancient texts are also appended in English translations.  Providing the first book-length edition and discussion of these enigmatic texts in English, and their first English translation, this book is essential to the study of ancient Greek religion.

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Link

https://www.routledge.com/Ritual-Texts-for-the-Afterlife-Orpheus-and-the-Bacchic-Gold-Tablets/Graf-Johnston-Graf-Johnston/p/book/9780415508032?gclid=CjwKCAiAmrOBBhA0EiwArn3mfBz14mApyNxJtWdK0LCDgjo7HKTiH51Waya94Z3JvzSnpmxX9EPD2RoCdG4QAvD_BwE

Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in the Platonic Tradition

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Literary, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in the Platonic Tradition

John F. Finamore and John Phillips, Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2013

Description

This anthology contains twelve papers on various aspects of Platonism, ranging from Plato’s Republic to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hermias, to the use of Platonic philosophy by Cudworth and Schleiermacher. The papers cover topics in ethics, psychology, religion, poetics, art, epistemology, and metaphysics.

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Table of contents

Ecstasy Between Divine and Human: Re-assessing Agency in Iamblichean Divination and Theurgy – Crystal Addey

Soul’s Desire and the Origin of Time in the Philosophy of Plotinus – José Baracat

Providence et liberté chez Jamblique de Chalcis – Jean-Michel Charrue

Sleep and Waking in Plotinus – Bernard Collette

The Spiritual Body. Porphyry’s Theory of the ochêma in Ralph Cudworth’s True Intellectual System of the Universe – Anna Corrias

Iamblichus’ Doctrine of the Soul Revisited – John Dillon

The Distorted City in the Republic – Gary Gurtler

Proclus on the Cognitive Value of Mythic Poetry. A Hegelian Reading – Oiva Kuisma

Neoplatonic Allegories in Hermias – Christina-Panagiota Manolea

The Splendor of Grace: Plotinus and the Cistercian Tradition – Martino Rossi Monti

The Reception of Schleiermacher’s View on Plato in 19th Century Poland – Tomaz Mroz

 The Nature of Art and the Art of Nature in Plotinus – Michael Wagner

Link

https://www.nomos-shop.de/academia/titel/literary-philosophical-and-religious-studies-in-the-platonic-tradition-id-89731/

Platonismus und hellenistische Philosophie

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Platonismus und hellenistische Philosophie

Krämer, Hans-Joachim, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1971

Inhaltsverzeichnis

EINLEITUNG

I. ÄLTERE UND NEUERE AKADEMIE

II. THEOLOGIE UND PRINZIPIENLEHRE VOM TIMAIOS ZUM FRÜHHELLENISMUS

III. ZUM HELLENISTISCHEN ARETE- UND EUDÄMONIEBEGRIFF

IV. EPIKURS LEHRE VOM MINIMUM

IV. EPIKURS LEHRE VOM MINIMUM. Exkurs: Die ‚Physik’ des Xenokrates und die fünf Argumente des Traktats De lineis insecabilibus

REGISTER. I. LITERATURVERZEICHNIS (ABKÜRZUNGEN)

REGISTER. II. VERZEICHNIS DER AUTOREN UND STELLEN (AUSWAHL)

REGISTER. III. VERZEICHNIS VON WÖRTERN UND BEGRIFFEN

REGISTER. IV. NAMENSVERZEICHNIS

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110843170/html

Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Classical Mediterranean Spirituality

Egyptian, Greek, Roman

A. Hilary Armstrong (ed.), New York: Crossroads Publishing, 1987

Table of Contents

I: Histories:

  1. J. Gwyn Griffiths’s « The Faith of the Pharaonic Period »;
  2. Griffiths’s « The Great Egyptian Cults of Oecumenical Spiritual Significance »;
  3. 3.A.H. Armstrong’s « The Ancient and Continuing Pieties of the Greek World »;
  4. J.B. Skemp’s « The Spirituality of Socrates and Plato »;
  5. Patrick Atherton’s « Aristotle »;
  6. A.A. Long’s « Epicureans and Stoics »;
  7. John Pinsent’s « Roman Spirituality »;
  8. H.D. Saffrey’s « The Piety and Prayers of Ordinary Men and Women in Late Antiquity »;
  9. J.M. Dillon’s « Plutarch and Second Century Platonism »;
  10. Neoplatonist Spirituality: Pierre Hadot’s « Plotinus and Porphyry » and Saffrey’s « From Iamblichus to Proclus, and Damascius »

II: Themes:

  1. John Peter Kenney’s « Monotheistic and Polytheistic Elements in Classical Mediterranean Spirituality »;
  2. Werner Beierwaltes’s « The Love of Beauty and the Love of God »;
  3. Atherton’s « The City in Ancient Religious Experiences »;
  4. Frederick M. Schroeder’s « The Self in Ancient Religious Experience »;
  5. K. Corrigan’s « Body and Soul in Ancient Religious Experience »;
  6. Peter Manchester’s « The Religious Experience of Time and Eternity »;
  7. Jean Pepin’s « Cosmic Piety »;
  8. I. Hadot’s « The Spiritual Guide »;
  9. R.T. Wallis’s « The Spiritual Importance of Not Knowing »;
  10. Patricia Cox Miller’s « In Praise of Nonsense »

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/database/IPHIL/entry/iphil.IBRID356607311/html

The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Theory of Will in Classical Antiquity

Albrecht Dihle, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1982

Description

The concept of the will as a faculty of mind independent of the intellect or the emotions was never employed by ancient Greek thinkers. Professor Dihle investigates what the Greeks did think about voluntary activity, how they were able to work without the concept of the will, and the difficulties they encountered because of the lack of such a concept. His six chapters – Cosmological conceptions in the Second Century A. D., The Greek View of Human Action I, The Greek View of Human Action II, St. Paul and Philo, Philosophy and Religion in Late Antiquity and St. Augustine and His Concept of Will – take him virtually through the whole of Greek literature, from Homer through Plato and Aristotle and later philosophers, trough the early Christian writers, and finally into the Roman tradition. The study culminates with St. Augustine, who first used by modern thinkers, to point to the very essence of the moral self of man. Professor Dihle’s work combines immense intellect and learning with great clarity of exposition. His book will gain a wide readership among those interested in philosophy, religion, and classical studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cosmological conceptions in the Second Century A. D.
  2. The Greek View of Human Action I
  3. The Greek View of Human Action II
  4. Paul and Philo
  5. Philosophy and Religion in Late Antiquity
  6. Augustine and His Concept of Will

Appendix I

Appendix II

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Greek and Latin Words

Index of Passages Cited

General Index

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520313101/html

Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Religious Dimensions of the Self

in the Second Century CE

Jörg Rüpke & Gregory Woolf, Heidelberg: Mohr Siebeck, 2013

Description

Jörg Rüpke et Greg Woolf viennent de publier un ouvrage collectif Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE, Tübingen, 2013. Il s’agit de la publication des communications présentées lors d’un atelier qui s’est déroulé à Erfurt en juin 2010. L’ensemble est organisé en quatre parties :

– la tradition philosophique (Eran Almagor sur Plutarque et Jula Wildberger sur Epictète)

– les concepts religieux du soi (Jörg Rüpke sur le Pasteur d’Hermas, Harry O. Maier sur Clément d’Alexandrie, Christoph Markschies sur les valentiniens, Anders Klostergaard Petersen sur Justin le Martyr, Anna Van den Kerchove sur des écrits hermétiques, Richard Gordon sur le mystagogue)

– la seconde sophistique (Wolfgang Spickermann sur Lucian et Dorothee Elm von der Osten sur Lucian et Apulée)

– les pratiques du soi (Zsuzsanna Várhelyi sur le soin de soi, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo sur les offrandes votives et Peter Gemeinhardt sur la représentation au début du christianisme).

Que ce livre aux contributions diverses apporte une nouvelle pierre aux réflexions sur le Soi dans l’Antiquité.

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Table de matières

Gregory D. Woolf/Jörg Rüpke: Introduction

Rethinking Philosophical Tradition

Eran Almagor: Dualism and the Self in Plutarch’s Thought

Jula Wildberger: Delimiting a Self by God: Epictetus and Other Stoics Religious Concepts of the Self

Jörg Rüpke: Two Cities and One Self: Transformations of Jerusalem and Reflexive Individuality in the Shepherd of Hermas

Harry O. Maier: Dressing for Church: Tailoring the Christian Self in Clement of Alexandria

Christoph Markschies: Das ‘Selbst’ in der Valentinianischen Gnosis

Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Emergence of Selfhood in the Writings of Justin

Anna Van den Kerchove: Self-Affirmation and Self-Negation in the Hermetic Revelation Treatises

Richard Gordon: Innovation, Individuality and Power in Graeco-Roman Religion: The Mystagogue Second Sophistic Perspectives

Wolfgang Spickermann: Philosophical Standards and Individual Life Style: Lucian’s Peregrinus/Proteus – Charlatan and Hero

Dorothee Elm von der Osten: Habitus corporis und Selbstdarstellung in Lukians Alexander oder der Lügenprophet und der Apologie des Apuleius Practices of the Self

Zsuzsanna Várhelyi: Selves in Sickness and Health: Some Religious Aspects of Self-Care Among the Imperial Elite

Elena Muñiz Grivaljo: Votive Offerings and the Self in Roman Athens

Peter Gemeinhardt: Wege und Umwege zum Selbst: Bildung und Religion im frühen Christentum

Lien

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/religious-dimensions-of-the-self-in-the-second-century-ce-9783161523519?no_cache=1

From Shame to Sin

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

From Shame to Sin

The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

Kyle Harper, New Jersey: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2013

Description

When Rome was at its height, an emperor’s male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded the mutilation of men caught in same-sex affairs, even as he affirmed the moral dignity of women without any civic claim to honor. The gradual transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian marks one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center of it all was sex. Exploring sources in literature, philosophy, and art, Kyle Harper examines the rise of Christianity as a turning point in the history of sexuality and helps us see how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. While Roman sexual culture was frankly and freely erotic, it was not completely unmoored from constraint. Offending against sexual morality was cause for shame, experienced through social condemnation. The rise of Christianity fundamentally changed the ethics of sexual behavior. In matters of morality, divine judgment transcended that of mere mortals, and shame — a social concept — gave way to the theological notion of sin. This transformed understanding led to Christianity’s explicit prohibitions of homosexuality, extramarital love, and prostitution. Most profound, however, was the emergence of the idea of free will in Christian dogma, which made all human action, including sexual behavior, accountable to the spiritual, not the physical, world.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: From City to Cosmos

  1. The Moralities of Sex in the Roman Empire
  2. The Will and the World in Early Christian Sexuality
  3. Church, Society, and Sex in the Age of Triumph
  4. Revolutionizing Romance in the Late Classical World

Conclusion: Sex and the Twilight of Antiquity

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674660014

Learning Greek with Plato. A Beginner’s Course in Classical Greek

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Learning Greek with Plato

A Beginner’s Course in Classical Greek

Frank Beetham, Liverpool: Liverpool Phoenix Press, 2007

 Description

Adult learners of ancient Greek are often attracted to it by the prospect of being able to read in the original a particular author or genre. Greek philosophical writing and Plato in particular is often the target. This book’s material has been tried and tested by the author over the years with adult classes, and can be used as a course textbook, or as a handbook for self-teaching. Each of 25 sections is clearly laid out – with tabulation of Greek word-forms and grammar. Each includes ample exercises and practice in reading Greek sentences. Readings in later sections consist of passages of continuous Greek from Plato’s Meno, a typical Platonic dramatic dialogue.

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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Background to Plato’s Meno

Section 1

The Alphabet, Punctuation and Accents

Section 2

The Verb « I am »

Asking Questions

Nouns and Declensions

Adjectives

Plurals

Section 3

Subjects and Verbs – Verb Endings

Personal Pronouns

Neuter Plural Subjects

Section 4

The Object

Accusative of Respect or Manner

Note on Greek Dialects

Section 5

Verbs – Middle and Passive Endings « This »,

Section 6

The Present Infinitive

Adverbs

The Genitive Case

Section 7

Conjunctions

The Dative Case

« Who? » and « What? »

« Someone » and « Something »

The Vocative Case

Third and Mixed Declension Adjectivess

Section 8

Prepositions

Verbs – Overview of Tenses

The Imperfect Tense

Augments

Translating Plato’s Meno 70a1-70c3

Section 9

The Perfect Tense

The Perfect Tense Middle and Passive

Translating Plato’s Meno 70c3-71c4

Section 10

Demonstrative Pronouns

Present Participles

The Perfect Active Participle

Middle and Passive Participles

Translating Plato’s Meno 71c5-72a5

Section 11

« Every »/ « All »

The Aorist Tense

The Weak Aorist Indicative Active

The Weak Aorist Indicative Middle

Kinds of Condition

Translating Plato’s Meno 72a6-72d3

Section 12

Multiple Questions

The Future Active

The Future Middle

The Subjunctive Mood

Infinitive as Subject and Object

Future and General Conditions

Translating Plato’s Meno 72d4-73c5

Section 13

Adjectives with Masculine for Feminine

The Optative Mood

Future Unlikely Conditions

Translating Plato’s Meno 73c6-74a6

Section 14

The Strong Aorist Active Tense

The Strong Aorist Middle Tense

Purpose Clauses

Translating Plato’s Meno 74a7-74e10

Section 15

Imperatives

Prohibitions

Strong and Doubtful Denials

Translating Plato’s Meno 74e11-75d7

Section 16

Contraction (Verbs)

Translating Plato’s Meno 75d7-76c3

Section 17

Relative Pronouns: « Who », « What », « Which », « That »

Translating Plato’s Meno 76c4-77a2

Section 18

The Aorist Passive Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 77a2-77e4

Section 19

The Genitive Absolute

The Future Passive Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 77e5-78c3

Section 20

Temporal Clauses

The Pluperfect Tense

Translating Plato’s Meno 78c4-79a2

Section 21

Contracted Adjective Endings (Third Declension)

Reported Speech

Accusative and Infinitive used for Reported Statements

Participle Construction with « Know » or « See »

Relative Clauses, Direct and Indirect Questions

Translating Plato’s Meno 79a3-79c10

Section 22

(« Because »)

(« Although »)

Numerals

Multiple Negatives

Translating Plato’s Meno 79d1-79e6

Section 23

Irregular Adjectives

Comparatives and Superlatives

Translating Plato’s Meno 79e7-80b7

Section 24

Translating Plato’s Meno 80b8-81a10

Section 25

Impersonal Verbs

Accusative Absolute

Verbal Adjectives

Reflexive Pronouns

Translating Plato’s Meno 81a10-81e6

Appendices

Cases and Prepositions

Summary of Voice, Mood, Tense and Aspect in the Greek Verb

Word Order

Duals

Numerals

Declension of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns

Reference List of Verb Endings and Irregular Verbs

Answers

Word List

Principal Tenses of Some of the More Difficult Verbs

Index

Link

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/series/series-12370/

Les impondérables de l’hellénisation. Littérature d’hiérogrammates 

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Les impondérables de l’hellénisation

Littérature d’hiérogrammates 

Derchain P., Turnhout: Brepolis, 2000

Table des matières 

Préface

I. Les impondérables de l’hellénisation

Les règles du jeu

Un conseiller de la première heure

Le zèle d’un néophyte ?

Un provincial hellénisé à la Cour de Philadelphe

Épigramme pour la mort d’un enfant

Pour finir

II. Littérature d’hiérogrammates

Traduction des témoignages

Éthique de la traduction

L’inscription du conseiller

L’inscription d’Horembeb

Les inscriptions de Sesoucheri

La statue de Qous

La statue de Coptos

L’épigramme de Pétosiris

Annexe : la stèle d’Isemkhetés

Notes

III. Textes hiéroglyphiques

Vienne 20 (d’après CAA)

CGC 1230 (D’après Borchardt/Daressy)

BM 1668 (avec l’autorisation gracieuse des Trustees du British Museum)

CGC 70031 (d’après Petrie)

Pétosiris 56 (d’après Lefebvre)

Lien

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503510255-1