Deakin Philosophy Seminar: Marta Faustino, 1st October, 7pm

***Due to circumstances beyond our control this event has now been postponed by one week. Please note the new date***

 

 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR SERIES

 

Thursday 1 October 2020, 7pm via Zoom, details below. All welcome, for queries please contact [email protected]

 

Marta Faustino (IFILNova, Lisbon), “Nietzsche and Philosophy as a Way of Life? A Critical Appraisal”

One of the most relevant and influential receptions of Nietzsche at the end of the twentieth century in France is found in the work of Pierre Hadot. Even though his most important works, Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (1993) and Qu-est ce que la philosophie antique (1995), are particularly known in the field of Ancient philosophy, they have also become influential for Nietzsche studies inasmuch as Hadot includes Nietzsche, among a few other modern and contemporary philosophers, in the model of conceiving and practicing philosophy that was characteristic of Ancient philosophy and which he famously designates as “philosophy as a way of life”. This association of Nietzsche to the philosophy as a way of life model is, however, as problematic and polemic as it is appealing, and in this presentation I shall discuss first the accuracy and then the relevance of interpreting Nietzsche in the light of philosophy as a way of life. I will first outline the basic characteristics of philosophy as a way of life, as described by Hadot and some of his followers in the contemporary debate. Secondly, I will discuss the appropriateness of including Nietzsche in this tradition of thought, addressing some recent criticism and adding textual evidence to support Hadot’s account. I will conclude by outlining some considerations on the relevance of this line of interpretation of Nietzsche’s thought, especially in what concerns current discussions on the possibility and importance of reactivating philosophy as a way of life today.

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