The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas

The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault

Alexander Nehamas

294 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophe...

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