In this series of engaging essays, Sylvain Roux calls into question Pierre Hadot’s “paradigm” of ancient philosophy. After an introduction and first chapter summarizing Hadot on spiritual exercises—i.e., those practices of Epicurean, Stoic, and Neoplatonic philosophers that suggest an idea of philosophy as, above all, a way of life—Roux turns to Socrates (ch. 2), Plato … Continue reading La philosophie antique comme exercice spirituel? Un paradigme en question