SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE
Author(s): Igor GasparovSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: spiritual exercises; philosophy; philosophical way of life; good life
Summary/Abstract: In my paper I will argue for the thesis that spiritual exercises are an essential part of every philosophical life. My arguments are partly historical, partly conceptual in their nature. First, I show that philosophy at each stage of its history was accompanied by spiritual exercises. Next, I provide a definition of spiritual exercises as genuinely philo-sophical activity. Then I show that the philosophical life cannot be complete if it does not include spiritual exercises.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 45-49
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English