The Art of Living
Subtitle: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: December 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780754636670
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Philosophers; Conduct of life; Stoics
Description: "Presenting philosophy as an art concerned with one's way of life, Sellars draws on Socratic and Stoic philosophical resources and argues for the ancient claim that philosophy is primarily expressed in one's behaviour. The book considers the relationship between philosophy and biography, and the bearing that this relationship has on debates concerning the nature and function of philosophy. Questioning the premise that philosophy can only be conceived as a rational discourse, Sellars presents it instead as an art (techne) that combines both 'logos' (rational discourse) and 'askesis' (training), and suggests that this will make it possible to understand better the relationship between philosophy and biography."--Jacket.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Philosophy and Biography; label: 2
title: The Socratic Origins of the Art of Living; label: 3
title: The Stoic Conception of the Art of Living; label: 4
title: Sceptical Objections; label: 5
title: Philosophical Exercises; label: 6
title: Exercises in the Handbook of Epictetus; label: 7
title: Exercises in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius