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Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as a Way of Life: Hadot and Kierkegaard’s Socrates
Ist Teil von
Volume 11, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy, 2012, p.171-186
Ort / Verlag
United Kingdom: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Pierre Hadot was born in Paris on February 21, 1922 and died on April 24, 2010.1
It was his mother’s decision that he too, just like his two older brothers, would
become a priest. In fact, as Hadot recalls, in his childhood he “never imagined
that [he] could do anything in life other than what [his] brothers did, and thus [he]
naturally found [himself] at the Petit Séminaire de Rheims at the age of ten.”2 He has
since become one of the most distinguished specialists in ancient philosophy who
unveiled its relevance in relation to the existential challenges of our present times.
Hadot was Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (1964-85),
requesting that the title of his Chair, Latin Patristics, be changed to Theologies and
Mysticisms of Hellenistic Greece and the End of Antiquity. At the time of his death
at the age of 88, Hadot was Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, where
he previously held the Chair of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thought
(1982-91). A corresponding member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der
Literatur (Mainz, since 1972), and of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
(Munich, since 2001), he also received a doctorate honoris causa in philosophy
from the University of Neuchâtel (1985), and another one from Laval University
(Québec, November 2002). In recognition of his lifetime’s work, Hadot received
the Grand Prix de Philosophie de l’Académie Française in 1999. He specialized in
1 It should perhaps be noted here that some sources mistakenly give Rheims (Marne,
Champagne-Ardenne) as Pierre Hadot’s birthplace (see, for instance, Alan D. Schrift’s
otherwise excellent book Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers,
Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell 2006, p. 135) when in fact his family had to flee Rheims
in 1914 only to return to “a city almost entirely destroyed by the bombings” a month after
his birth in Paris. Cf. Pierre Hadot, La Philosophie comme manière de vivre. Entretiens avec
Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Éditions Albin Michel 2001, p. 18. (English
translation: The Present Alone Is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and
Arnold I. Davidson, trans. by Marc Djaballah, Stanford: Stanford University Press 2009, p. 2.)
Neoplatonism, but he has also written extensively on Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus,
Wittgenstein, Goethe, and others.3