Spiritual exercises and the question of religion in the work of Pierre Hadot
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Sharpe, Matthew. (2023). Spiritual exercises and the question of religion in the work of Pierre Hadot. Religions. 14(8), p. Article 998. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14080998
Authors | Sharpe, Matthew |
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Abstract | This paper addresses John M. Cooper’s critique, and related critiques, of Pierre Hadot’s conception of philosophy as a way of life for collapsing the distinction between philosophy and religion, via the category of “spiritual exercises”. The paper has two parts. Part 1, a pars destruens, will show how Hadot presents three cogent rebuttals of these charges, with which he was familiar as early as the 1980s, following the publication of the first edition of his 1981 collection, Exercises spirituels et philosophie antique. In part 2, a pars construens, putting aside the vexed category of “religion”, we will examine how Hadot reconsiders the place of the sacred in ancient philosophy, positioning the latter as not the attempt to rationally dispel any sense of the sacred in the world, but to relocate it from within the sanctioned cultic places and temples of traditional Greco-Roman religion to within the inner life of the godlike sage. |
Keywords | Pierre Hadot; philosophy as a way of life; spiritual exercises; religion |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Religions |
Journal citation | 14 (8), p. Article 998 |
Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI AG) |
ISSN | 2077-1444 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14080998 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85169071561 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 1-13 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 03 Aug 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 20 Jul 2023 |
Deposited | 29 Nov 2023 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/9002q/spiritual-exercises-and-the-question-of-religion-in-the-work-of-pierre-hadot
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