Fourth session of the PWL International Seminar, hosted by Lucas Nascimento Machado (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) who talked about "Life Beyond Capitalism: An Attempt at an Interlocution Between Hadot, Foucault and Byung-Chul Han". The session took place on June 14, 2023.

The PWL International Seminar is held virtually once a month and takes place within the scope of the activities of the exploratory project Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach, coordinated by Marta Faustino (CultureLab/IFILNOVA), and the activities of the research group Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy, coordinated by Bartholomew Ryan (CultureLab/IFILNOVA).

+info https://ifilnova.pt/en/events/lucas-nascimento-machado/

Life Beyond Capitalism: An Attempt at an Interlocution Between Hadot, Foucault and Byung-Chul Han

Matteo Stettler (Deakin University) gave a presentation entitled “‘Intellectual Felicity’ in the Latin Averroists: Exploring the Limits of Hadot’s Metaphilosophy in the Middle Ages” in the context of the international conference "What Exactly is Philosophy as a Way of Life? Boundaries, Crossroads, Deadlocks". Organized by Marta Faustino (NOVA University of Lisbon) & Hélder Telo (University of Beira Interior), the kick-off conference of the Exploratory Project “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach” took place from 5 to 6 July 2023 at NOVA FCSH — NOVA University Lisbon.

More info https://ifilnova.pt/en/events/what-exactly-is-philosophy-as-a-way-of-life-boundaries-crossroads-deadlocks/

‘Intellectual Felicity’ in the Latin Averroists: Exploring the Limits of Hadot’s Metaphilosophy...

Sixth session of the PWL International Seminar, hosted by Hélder Telo (University of Beira Interior) who talked about “Philosophy as Askēsis or Pathos? A Heideggerian Challenge to Hadot and Foucault”. The session took place on October 18, 2023. 

The PWL International Seminar is held virtually once a month and takes place within the scope of the activities of the exploratory project Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach, coordinated by Marta Faustino (CultureLab/IFILNOVA), and the activities of the research group Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy, coordinated by Bartholomew Ryan (CultureLab/IFILNOVA).

+info https://ifilnova.pt/en/events/helder-telo-pwl/

Philosophy as Askēsis or Pathos? A Heideggerian Challenge to Hadot and Foucault (Hélder Telo)

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Depuis les années 60 s’est imposée une nouvelle conception de la philosophie antique mais aussi, plus largement, de la philosophie elle-même. Selon cette nouvelle conception, la philosophie aurait été comprise, depuis Socrate, comme une manière de vivre et non comme une discipline purement théorique visant seulement à produire un savoir. Dans ce livre, Sylvain Roux s’interroge sur les fondements d’une telle conception, mais d’en signaler aussi les limites, afin d’ouvrir à nouveau le débat sur le sens de la philosophie antique.
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Sylvain Roux = La philosophie antique comme exercice spirituel ?

This is my relatively short talk given during the 2025 Plato's Academy multidisciplinary conference: The Philosophy and Psychology of Anger, during which I discuss some of the useful insights and practices early Christian thinkers (2nd-5th Century CE) can provide us. These don't require one to be committed to Christianity and can be applied by a wide range of people.

I begin with a passage from Pierre Hadot's book Philosophy As A Way Of Life: "[Christians] believed they recognized spiritual exercises, which they had learned through philosophy, in specific scriptural passages . . . The reason why Christian authors paid attention to these particular biblical passages, was that they were already familiar, from other sources, with the  spiritual exercises of prosokhē, meditation on death, and examination of the conscience.” 

What Hadot calls “spiritual exercises” gets called by a variety of other terms by other thinkers. Foucault’s "technologies of the self", Nussbaum’s "therapeutic arguments", as well as the more general "philosophical practices" many of us reference in our work and study.

What we can say about these early Christian thinkers is that many had a philosophical education, had opportunities to engage with pagan philosophical schools, some of which had pretty strong religious stances, with precursor and contemporary Jewish thought, and with a variety of other disciplines like rhetoric, medicine, literature, political theory, law, history, music, etc. There was already a strong interest in issues about anger already raised and debated in ancient philosophy including: vicious anger, can anger have useful role, dangers of indulging or excusing anger, anger and courage or justice, types or levels of anger, divine anger. Early Christian thinkers rely upon or incorporating broadly Platonic psychology, and ethical conceptions drawn from Platonist, Stoic, and Aristotelian schools, but within a framework Christianity provides.

The thinkers I reference and discuss in this presentation include:
2nd-4th Century CE: Clement of Alexandria 150 – c. 215 AD, Tertullian 155 – c. 220, Origen 185 – c. 253, Lactantius 250 – c. 325
4th  5th century CE: Basil of Caesarea 330 – 379, Gregory of Nyssa 335, Evagrius Ponticus 345–399 AD, John Chrysostom 347-407, Ambrose 339-397, Jerome 342–347-420, Prudentius 348-413?, John Cassian 360 – 435, Augustine of Hippo 354-430

Some of the key scriptural passages they tend to engage most heavily with include:
A number of discussions of anger in Pre-Christian Jewish scriptures, particularly in the Psalms, Proverbs, and Sirach
The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, Paul’s Letter To Ephesians, and the Letter of James 

There is a stress on identifying and dealing with vices that involve anger, but also on developing virtues of Patience, Humility, Mercy, and Forgiveness. They also adopt, develop, and discuss a number of useful practices for lessening, understanding, or dealing with anger.

Early Christian Thinkers On Anger - Sadler's Lectures

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