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What Is Ancient Philosophy?
Pierre Hadot ISBN 0674013735
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Pierre Hadot ISBN 0674013735
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This book by Pierre Hadot came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: John Vervaeke. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy, and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life.
“the book that changed my life. I picked What Is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot. That book, and philosophy as a way of life”— John Vervaeke
The guest here is John Vervaeke: Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, director of its Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory, and creator of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates. Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an ecology of practices addresses the meaning crisis.
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