From Socrates to Foucault: a long tradition of the philosophy as a form of life and art of living in the light of pierre hadot and Alexander Nehamas
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Philosophy, Art of living, Socrates, Epictetus, Michel Foucault, Pierre Hadot, Alexander Nehamas
Abstract
In this chapter we try to trace a historical arc from Socrates to Foucault, passing through Epictetus, according to which the guiding thread of Philosophy is an integral form of life and / or art of living and not a mere academic speculative activity. The approach is carried out in the light of the authors Pierre Hadot and Alexander Nehamas. Finally, the influence of Epictetus and his Art of living in the last Foucault is highlighted, which was a philosophical praxeological finding: an 'aesthetics of existence' fulfilled in Parresia or neocinic veridiction. We transcribe as an existential contribution an Epictetian section reassumed by Foucault in his last days.
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Santiago Borda Malo Echeverri, University of Santo Tomas
The author is an Ethics Specialist, Master in Latin American Philosophy and PhD in Philosophy USTA (Bogotá) with the thesis 'ad portas' to sustain it entitled "Parresia as heterotopía in the last Foucault: Another way of being, think (unthink), say and live". Also from the book: (2011). Philosophy of nonviolence and criticism of violent reason. Santo Tomás University Tunja Sectional Department of Humanities. Tunja
Teacher of USTA (Tunja) 17 years ago. After an enriching and indelible experience as a monk for 19 years, his philosophical project has always aimed to claim Philosophy as an ethical lifestyle that radiates the coherence of an art of living in everyday existence