Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life

Philosophy is a mode of life, an act of living, and a way of being. Modern philosophy has forgotten this tradition, and philosophical discourse has all but overtaken philosophy as a way of life. Philosophy is not just an intellectual discipline, which can get abstract and divorced from the real world, but is most importantly a way of life that teaches us how to best live our lives. Philosophy is a mode of existing in the world, which has to be practiced at each instant, and the goal of which is to transform the whole of the individual’s life. Real wisdom does not merely cause us to know: it makes us “be” in a different way. Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists. ⭐ Become a Patron (exclusive content): 📺 YouTube Member (exclusive content): 🛒 Official Merch: ☕ Donate a Coffee: 📘 PayPal: 🎦 Subscribe to the official clips channel: 📨 Subscribe with email: 📚 My personal library: 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Philosophy as a Way of Life - Hadot ▶ What is Ancient Philosophy? - Hadot ▶ The Republic - Plato ▶ Outlines of Pyrrhonism - Sextus Empiricus ▶ Meditations - Marcus Aurelius ▶ Letters from a Stoic - Seneca ▶ Enchiridion - Epictetus ▶ A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine ▶ The Art of Happiness - Epicurus ▶ The Enneads - Plotinus 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ @eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ 🐦 Twitter ➔ 📷 Instagram ➔ 📘 Facebook ➔ 🎧 Podcast ➔ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Mesmerize – Kevin MacLeod 2. Dreams Become Real – Kevin MacLeod 3. Crystal Dream Mix Background Music – 4. Colorless Aura – Kevin MacLeod 5. Evening Fall Harp – Kevin MacLeod 6. Desert City – Kevin MacLeod 7. Mysterious Ambient Background Music - The Rake – 8. Virtutes Instrumenti – Kevin MacLeod 9. Cryptic Sorrow – Kevin MacLeod 10. Smoother Move – Kevin MacLeod 11. Chasing Daylight - Emotional Neoclassical – Scott Buckley Support the artists: Music Scott Buckley - Kevin MacLeod - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - Hadot, P. (1995). Philosophy as a way of life: Spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault. - Hadot, P. (2002). What is ancient philosophy? Harvard University Press. - Irvine, W. B. (2008). A guide to the good life: The ancient art of Stoic joy. Oxford University Press. - Davidson, A. I. (1990). Spiritual exercises and ancient philosophy: An introduction to Pierre Hadot. Critical inquiry, 16(3), 475-482. - - - - ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:18) Philosophy as a Way of Life (7:12) Socrates (8:53) Master of Dialogue: Know Thyself (13:30) Plato (15:58) Idealism: Platonic Forms (17:15) Parable of the Cave (19:33) Plato’s Cave in The Matrix (20:16) Plato’s Tripartite Theory of the Soul (22:36) Philosophy as an Exercise of Death (24:56) Aristotle (27:06) Hellenistic Schools (28:25) Cynicism (31:45) Pyrrhonism (34:46) Stoicism (39:45) Premeditatio Malorum (41:03) Memento Mori (42:24) Voluntary Discomfort (43:54) Epicureanism (50:12) Similarities Epicureanism & Stoicism (50:57) Neoplatonism (57:45) View from Above: Cosmic Consciousness ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. #philosophy #wisdom #knowthyself