The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson by Pierre Hadot, Arnold I. Davidson, Marc Djaballah, Jeannie Carlier

The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson

Pierre Hadot, Arnold I. Davidson, Marc Djaballah, Jeannie Carlier

216 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life.One of the most i...

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