Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : : With a Foreword by Pierre Hadot.

• Superior document: Philosophy As a Way of Life Series ; v.6
• Author: Domański, Juliusz.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kramer, Eli.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophy As a Way of Life Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158 pages)

The ancient Western conception of philosophy as a way of life was eclipsed as philosophy became an academic discipline, a development that peaked under the influence of 13th-century scholasticism. Domański both traces this development and explores how some resisted it.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Translators' Note -- Translators' Introduction -- Foreword -- Pierre Hadot in Poland -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Ancient Ideal of the Philosopher and Its Patristic Challenge -- 1.1 The Anecdote about Pythagoras -- 1.2 The Ancient Definitions of Philosophy -- 1.3 The Meaning of "Practice" -- 1.4 Three Models of the Relationship between Theory and Practice -- 1.5 The Personality of the Philosopher -- 1.6 The Ancient Conception Challenged by the Church Fathers -- Chapter 2 The Nature of Philosophy as Seen by the Medieval Scholastics -- 2.1 Philosophy Relegated to the Level of the Liberal Arts -- 2.2 Some Remarks on the Continuation of the Tradition of Boethius' Consolation -- 2.3 The Liberal Arts and Philosophy -- 2.4 The Scholasticism of the 13th Century -- 2.5 The Wisdom of Philosophy and Christian Wisdom -- 2.6 The "Essential" Parts and the "Less Important" Parts of Philosophy -- Chapter 3 The Crisis of the Scholastic Conception -- 3.1 The Survival of the Patristic Vocabulary -- 3.2 Peter Abelard and the Ancient Philosophers -- 3.3 The Non-scholastic Tendencies of the 13th Century -- 3.4 The Reinforcement of the Non-scholastic Tendencies in the 14th and 15th Centuries -- 3.5 Jean Gerson and the "Atopia" of the Philosophers -- Chapter 4 The Humanists and Philosophy -- 4.1 Balance Sheet of Our Preceding Findings -- 4.2 Melior Fieri: Philosophy and Goodness in Petrarch and the Devotio Moderna -- 4.3 Biographies and Apothegms of the Philosophers: Pseudo-Burley and Ambrogio Traversari -- 4.4 The Humanists in Search of the Philosophical Personality -- 4.5 Erasmus and Philosophy -- Appendix Atopia and Other Topics: Philosophy and Philology in Juliusz Domański's Work -- Index locorum -- Back Cover.