4 Citations
Philosophical Practice as Spiritual Exercises towards Truth, Wisdom, and Virtue
- PhilosophyReligions
- 2022
The concept of spirituality has a long philosophical history. Based on detailed studies of a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates, the Stoics, Epicureanism, to early Christianity, the former…
Ways of life as modes of presentation
- PhilosophyHuman Affairs
- 2021
Abstract Books and journal articles have become the dominant modes of presentation in contemporary philosophy. This historically contingent paradigm prioritises textual expression and assumes a…
Pierre Hadot, Albert Camus and the orphic view of nature
- Philosophy
- 2020
Albert Camus repeatedly denied the label “existentialist,” and pointed to his formative experiences of natural beauty and his early introduction to classical Greek thought and culture as…
WHAT IT TAKES TO LIVE PHILOSOPHICALLY: OR, HOW TO PROGRESS IN THE ART OF LIVING
- Philosophy
- 2020
We present an account of what it takes to live a philosophical way of life: practitioners must be committed to a worldview, structure their lives around it, and engage in truthdirected practices.…
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WHAT IT TAKES TO LIVE PHILOSOPHICALLY: OR, HOW TO PROGRESS IN THE ART OF LIVING
- Philosophy
- 2020
We present an account of what it takes to live a philosophical way of life: practitioners must be committed to a worldview, structure their lives around it, and engage in truthdirected practices.…
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus, by John M. Cooper.
- Philosophy
- 2014
Oxford Classical Texts: L. Annaei Senecae: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. 1: Libri I–XIII
- History
- 1965
The Behavior of Ethicists
- Psychology
- 2016
Arguably, one of the aims of studying ethics is moral self‐improvement. In ancient philosophy, moral self‐improvement is often treated as the foremost aim for the student of ethics – for example, in…
Exemplarist Moral Theory
- Philosophy
- 2017
This paper summarizes my new moral theory, which is based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, identified through the emotion of admiration. Since a motivating emotion is at the root of the…
The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior
- Psychology
- 2014
Do philosophy professors specializing in ethics behave, on average, any morally better than do other professors? If not, do they at least behave more consistently with their expressed values? These…