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.