By "spiritual exercises"[11] Hadot means "practices ... intended to effect a modification and a transformation in the subjects who practice them
Hadot's recurring theme is that philosophy in Antiquity was characterized by a series of spiritual exercises intended to transform the perception, and therefore the being, of those who practice it; that philosophy is best pursued in real conversation and not through written texts and lectures; and that philosophy, as it is taught in universities today, is for the most part a distortion of its original, therapeutic impulse. He brings these concerns together in What Is Ancient Philosophy?,[15] which has been
critically reviewed.[16] In 1994 Hadot published an article entitled "There Are Nowadays Professors of Philosophy, but not Philosophers",[17] in it Hadot shows us that the American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, via his book Walden, exemplifies the 'true philosopher', one who lives his philosophy by living simply in natural surroundings.
Much of what Hadot wrote about in his most popular books deals with the personal transformation experienced by people who 'lived philosophy' rather than those who studied philosophy as an academic endeavor. Hadot didn't 'discover' the practice and benefits of 'spiritual exercises' but he 'rediscovered' it and brought it back into modern day philosophical conversation much like previous philosophers did in the past, namely, Erasmus, Montaigne, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Marx, Nietzsche, William James, Wittgenstein, Jaspers, and Rilke.[18] Stoicism is undergoing a revitalization,[19] with 25 podcasts on Spotify alone. Furthermore, CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a highly successful form of psychological therapy, is based on the teachings of Stoicism.[20]
哈多特所說的「靈修練習」[11]指的是「旨在改變和轉化練習者自身的實踐」。
哈多特一再強調的主題是，古代哲學以一系列旨在改變練習者感知乃至存在的靈修練習為特徵；哲學最好在真實的對話中進行，而不是透過書面文本和講座；而如今大學裡教授的哲學在很大程度上扭曲了其最初的療癒作用。他在《何謂古代哲學？ 》[15]一書中匯集了這些觀點，該書曾受到評論家的批評[16]。 1994年，哈多特發表了一篇題為《如今有哲學教授，卻沒有哲學家》[17]的文章，文中他指出，美國哲學家亨利·大衛·梭羅透過其著作《瓦爾登湖》堪稱「真正的哲學家」典範，他透過在自然環境中簡樸實踐自己的哲學。
哈多在其最受歡迎的著作中探討的內容，主要涉及那些「實踐哲學」的人所經歷的個人轉變，而非那些將哲學作為學術研究的人。哈多並非「發現」了「靈修」的實踐和益處，而是「重新發現」了它，並將其帶回了現代哲學對話中，這與之前的哲學家們所做的非常相似，例如伊拉斯謨、蒙田、笛卡爾、康德、愛默生、馬克思、尼采、威廉·詹姆斯、維特根斯坦、雅斯貝爾斯和里爾克。 [18] 斯多葛主義正在復興，[19] 光是在Spotify上就有25個相關的播客節目。此外，認知行為療法（CBT）——一種非常成功的心理療法——正是基於斯多葛主義的教義。 [20]
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“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
-William James
January 11, 1842 – August 27, 1910,
was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential U.S. philosophers, and has been labeled the "Father of American Psychology.”
Though one of America’s greatest psychologists and philosophers, James, himself, suffered periods of depression during which he contemplated suicide for months on end. John McDermott, editor of The Writings of William James, reports that “James spent a good part of life rationalizing his decision not to commit suicide.” In The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph Barton Perry’s classic biography on his teacher, in the chapter “Depression and Recovery,” we learn that at age 27, James went through a period that Perry describes as an “ebbing of the will to live . . . a personal crisis that could only be relieved by philosophical insight.”
James’ Antidotes: James’s transformative insight about his personal depression also contributed to his philosophical writings about his philosophy of pragmatism, as James came quite pragmatically to “believe in belief.” He continued to maintain that one cannot choose to believe in whatever one wants (one cannot choose to believe that 2 + 2 = 5 for example); however, he concluded that there is a range of human experience in which one can choose beliefs. He came to understand that, “Faith in a fact can help create the fact.” So, for example, a belief that one has a significant contribution to make to the world can keep one from committing suicide during a period of deep despair, and remaining alive makes it possible to in fact make a significant contribution. James ultimately let go of his dallying with suicide, remained a tough-minded thinker but also came to “believe in my individual reality and creative power” and developed faith that “Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.”
https://www.salon.com/…/7_historical_figures_who_wrestled_…/
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
—William James
“Royce, you're being photographed! Look out! I say, Damn the Absolute!” —William James. http://tpr.ly/1KXWH3O
William James Hated to Be Photographed
“I abhor this hawking about of everybody’s phiz,” he wrote to his publisher about author photos, which were then a novelty.
THEPARISREVIEW.ORG|由 TIERRA INNOVATION 上傳
Ruth Anna Putnam
Cambridge University Press, Apr 13, 1997 - Philosophy - 406 pages
3 Reviews
William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral philosophy and political controversies of his time. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of James.
Contents
Pragmatism and introspective psychology 11
Consciousness as a pragmatist views it 25
John Deweys naturalization of William James 49
James Clifford and the scientific conscience 69
Religious faith intellectual responsibility and romance 84
The breathtaking intimacy of the material world William Jamess last thoughts 103
James aboutness and his British critics 125
Logical principles and philosophical attitudes Peirces response to Jamess pragmatism 145
Interpreting the universe after a social analogy Intimacy panpsychism and a finite god in a pluralistic universe 237
Moral philosophy and the development of morality 260
Some of lifes ideals 282
A shelter of the mind Henry William and the domestic scene 300
The influence of William James on American culture 322
Pragmatism politics and the corridor 343
James and the Kantian tradition 363
Bibliography 385
Jamess theory of truth 166
The JamesRoyce dispute and the development of Jamess solution 186
William James on religious experience 214
Index 399
Copyright
Contents
Pragmatism and introspective psychology 11
Consciousness as a pragmatist views it 25
John Deweys naturalization of William James 49
James Clifford and the scientific conscience 69
Religious faith intellectual responsibility and romance 84
The breathtaking intimacy of the material world William Jamess last thoughts 103
James aboutness and his British critics 125
Logical principles and philosophical attitudes Peirces response to Jamess pragmatism 145
Interpreting the universe after a social analogy Intimacy panpsychism and a finite god in a pluralistic universe 237
Moral philosophy and the development of morality 260
Some of lifes ideals 282
A shelter of the mind Henry William and the domestic scene 300
The influence of William James on American culture 322
Pragmatism politics and the corridor 343
James and the Kantian tradition 363
Bibliography 385
Jamess theory of truth 166
The JamesRoyce dispute and the development of Jamess solution 186
William James on religious experience 214
Index 399
Copyright
December 1910
William James
by James JacksonPutnam
The Jameses: a family narrative
Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
1 評論
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991 - 695 頁
Even if the James family hadn't given us both William the philosopher and psychologist, and Henry the novelist, the story of this quirky, wealthy, socially prominent clan would still be riveting. Full of incidents that would become legendary, The Jameses brings to life 150 years of unforgettable American history. Four 8-page inserts.
其他版本 - 檢視全部
1993無預覽
1991無預覽關於作者 (1991)Chicago native Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, the son of Leicester and Beatrix (Baldwin) Lewis, was born on November 1, 1917. Lewis was educated in Switzerland, at Phillips Exeter Academy, at Harvard University, at the University of Chicago, where he received his M.A. in 1941. Lewis spent World War II engaged primarily in intelligence work for the British. Following the war, he began a long academic teaching career, focused mainly on American literature and social studies, at Bennington College and Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale universities. Lewis has created such critical and biographical books on authors and 19th-century United States history as The American Adam (1955), Edith Wharton (a 1975 biography that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft, and Critics Circle awards), and The Jameses: A Family Narrative, about author Henry James and his family.
書目資訊書名The Jameses: a family narrative
作者Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
版本圖解出版者Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991
ISBN0374178615, 9780374178611
頁數695 頁
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
-William James
January 11, 1842 – August 27, 1910,
was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential U.S. philosophers, and has been labeled the "Father of American Psychology.”
Though one of America’s greatest psychologists and philosophers, James, himself, suffered periods of depression during which he contemplated suicide for months on end. John McDermott, editor of The Writings of William James, reports that “James spent a good part of life rationalizing his decision not to commit suicide.” In The Thought and Character of William James, Ralph Barton Perry’s classic biography on his teacher, in the chapter “Depression and Recovery,” we learn that at age 27, James went through a period that Perry describes as an “ebbing of the will to live . . . a personal crisis that could only be relieved by philosophical insight.”
James’ Antidotes: James’s transformative insight about his personal depression also contributed to his philosophical writings about his philosophy of pragmatism, as James came quite pragmatically to “believe in belief.” He continued to maintain that one cannot choose to believe in whatever one wants (one cannot choose to believe that 2 + 2 = 5 for example); however, he concluded that there is a range of human experience in which one can choose beliefs. He came to understand that, “Faith in a fact can help create the fact.” So, for example, a belief that one has a significant contribution to make to the world can keep one from committing suicide during a period of deep despair, and remaining alive makes it possible to in fact make a significant contribution. James ultimately let go of his dallying with suicide, remained a tough-minded thinker but also came to “believe in my individual reality and creative power” and developed faith that “Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.”
https://www.salon.com/…/7_historical_figures_who_wrestled_…/
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
—William James
“Royce, you're being photographed! Look out! I say, Damn the Absolute!” —William James. http://tpr.ly/1KXWH3O
William James Hated to Be Photographed
“I abhor this hawking about of everybody’s phiz,” he wrote to his publisher about author photos, which were then a novelty.
THEPARISREVIEW.ORG|由 TIERRA INNOVATION 上傳
Ruth Anna Putnam
Cambridge University Press, Apr 13, 1997 - Philosophy - 406 pages
3 Reviews
William James (1842-1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral philosophy and political controversies of his time. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of James.
Contents
Pragmatism and introspective psychology 11
Consciousness as a pragmatist views it 25
John Deweys naturalization of William James 49
James Clifford and the scientific conscience 69
Religious faith intellectual responsibility and romance 84
The breathtaking intimacy of the material world William Jamess last thoughts 103
James aboutness and his British critics 125
Logical principles and philosophical attitudes Peirces response to Jamess pragmatism 145
Interpreting the universe after a social analogy Intimacy panpsychism and a finite god in a pluralistic universe 237
Moral philosophy and the development of morality 260
Some of lifes ideals 282
A shelter of the mind Henry William and the domestic scene 300
The influence of William James on American culture 322
Pragmatism politics and the corridor 343
James and the Kantian tradition 363
Bibliography 385
Jamess theory of truth 166
The JamesRoyce dispute and the development of Jamess solution 186
William James on religious experience 214
Index 399
Copyright
Contents
Pragmatism and introspective psychology 11
Consciousness as a pragmatist views it 25
John Deweys naturalization of William James 49
James Clifford and the scientific conscience 69
Religious faith intellectual responsibility and romance 84
The breathtaking intimacy of the material world William Jamess last thoughts 103
James aboutness and his British critics 125
Logical principles and philosophical attitudes Peirces response to Jamess pragmatism 145
Interpreting the universe after a social analogy Intimacy panpsychism and a finite god in a pluralistic universe 237
Moral philosophy and the development of morality 260
Some of lifes ideals 282
A shelter of the mind Henry William and the domestic scene 300
The influence of William James on American culture 322
Pragmatism politics and the corridor 343
James and the Kantian tradition 363
Bibliography 385
Jamess theory of truth 166
The JamesRoyce dispute and the development of Jamess solution 186
William James on religious experience 214
Index 399
Copyright
December 1910
William James
by James JacksonPutnam
The Jameses: a family narrative
Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
1 評論
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991 - 695 頁
Even if the James family hadn't given us both William the philosopher and psychologist, and Henry the novelist, the story of this quirky, wealthy, socially prominent clan would still be riveting. Full of incidents that would become legendary, The Jameses brings to life 150 years of unforgettable American history. Four 8-page inserts.
其他版本 - 檢視全部
1993無預覽
1991無預覽關於作者 (1991)Chicago native Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, the son of Leicester and Beatrix (Baldwin) Lewis, was born on November 1, 1917. Lewis was educated in Switzerland, at Phillips Exeter Academy, at Harvard University, at the University of Chicago, where he received his M.A. in 1941. Lewis spent World War II engaged primarily in intelligence work for the British. Following the war, he began a long academic teaching career, focused mainly on American literature and social studies, at Bennington College and Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale universities. Lewis has created such critical and biographical books on authors and 19th-century United States history as The American Adam (1955), Edith Wharton (a 1975 biography that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft, and Critics Circle awards), and The Jameses: A Family Narrative, about author Henry James and his family.
書目資訊書名The Jameses: a family narrative
作者Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
版本圖解出版者Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1991
ISBN0374178615, 9780374178611
頁數695 頁
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