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Philosophy and the contemplative way of life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2023

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Mark Wynn*
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Oriel College, Oxford, UK
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Abstract

One way of understanding the significance of Christina Van Dyke's book A Hidden Wisdom is as a plea for the recovery of an ideal of philosophy as, in part, ‘a way of life’, and for a reintegration of that ideal into current philosophical practice. In this review, I consider how this proposal might be developed.

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Religious Studies , Volume 60 , Special Issue 3: Women-Focused , September 2024 , pp. 529 - 533
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Hadot, P (1995) Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault. Chase M (trans.). Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Van Dyke C (2022) A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar