Philosophy as a Way of Life : History, Dimensions, Directions (Paperback)

Preface Martin. E. Jay Introduction: Philosophy as a way of life-a new, ancient paradigm Part 1: The ancients 1. Socrates 2. Epicureanism 3. Stoicism and the art of living 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Socratic lineage 3.3 From Musonius Rufus to Seneca 3.4 Epictetus' Discourses and Handbook 3.5 Marcus Aurelius' Meditations 4. Platonisms as ways of life 4.1 Platonisms 4.2 Scepticisms, from academic to Pyrrhonian 4.3 Cicero, philosophy as medicina animi 4.4 Plotinus: mysticism as a way of life 4.5 Boethius and the end of antiquity 5: Philosophy as a way of life in the middle ages 5.1 Christian philosophia? 5.2 Monasticism and the spiritual exercises 5.3 Scholasticism and the theoreticisation of philosophy 5.4 Averroeism and philosophy for the laity Part 2: The Moderns 6. The Renaissances of philosophy as a way of life 6.1 Humanism, philosophy and rhetoric 6.2 Petrarch's Christianised Stoicism 6.3 Montaigne, the essayist as philosopher 6.4 Justus Lipsius' Neostoicism 7. The early moderns 7.1 Francis Bacon, the novum organum and the Georgics of the mind 7.2 Spinoza 7.3 The Royal Society virtuosi and Shaftesbury's exercises 8. Figures of the philosophe in the French enlightenment 8.1 "The philosophe" of Du Marsais, and of the enlightenment 8.2 The patriarch, Voltaire: philosophy between Sirius and Earth 8.3 "The" philosophe, Diderot, and his Seneca 9. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Part 3: 20th century reinventions 10. Camus and Existentialism 11. Slavoj Zizek and the Idea of the Real 12. Philosophy as Therapy Conclusion: An Apology for philosophy as a way of life