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Pierre Hadot was born on 21 February, 1922 in Reims, France, is a French historian and philosopher (1922–2010). Discover Pierre Hadot's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 21 February 1922
Birthday 21 February
Birthplace Reims, France
Date of death 24 April, 2010
Died Place Orsay, France
Nationality France

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1922

Pierre Hadot (21 February 1922 – 24 April 2010) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Epicureanism and Stoicism.

1944

In 1944, Hadot was ordained, but following Pope Pius XII's encyclical Humani generis (1950) left the priesthood.

1946

He studied at the Sorbonne between 1946–1947.

1961

In 1961, he graduated from the École Pratique des Hautes Études.

1964

In 1964, he was appointed a Director of Studies at EPHE, initially occupying a chair in Latin Patristics, before his chair was renamed "Theologies and Mysticisms of Hellenistic Greece and the End of Antiquity" in 1972.

1983

He became professor at the Collège de France in 1983, where he assumed the chair of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thought.

1991

In 1991, he retired from this position to become professeur honoraire at the collège; his last lecture was on 22 May that year.

He concluded his final lecture by saying, "In the last analysis, we can scarcely talk about what is most important."

Over the course of his career, Hadot published translations of and commentaries on Porphyry, St. Ambrose, Plotinus, and Marcus Aurelius.

Hadot was married to the historian of philosophy, Ilsetraut Hadot, who assisted him in formulating and extending his knowledge of spiritual exercises.

Toward the end of his life, Hadot felt that Epicureanism and Stoicism nourished his life and that of modern society.

Hadot was one of the first authors to introduce Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought into France.

Hadot suggested that one cannot separate the form of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from their content.

Wittgenstein had claimed that philosophy was an illness of language and Hadot notes that the cure required a particular type of literary genre.

Hadot is also famous for his analysis of the conception of philosophy during Greco-Roman antiquity.

He identified and analyzed the "spiritual exercises" used in ancient philosophy (influencing the thought of Michel Foucault in the second and third volumes of his History of Sexuality).

By "spiritual exercises" Hadot means "practices ... intended to effect a modification and a transformation in the subjects who practice them. The following is an example of a spiritual exercise coined by Epictetus and practiced by ancient philosophers following Stoicism: "What troubles people is not things, but their judgments about things". The Stoics would repeat these aphorisms, committing them to memory, thereby enabling them to use its wisdom the moment they became troubled by a particular thing. Another example comes from Marcus Aurelius: "...my thought can "turn upside down" everything that presents an obstacle to my action, and transform the obstacle into an object toward which my impulse to act ought preferably to tend." "That which impeded action thus becomes profitable to action, and that which blocked the road allows me to advance along the road" These and many other spiritual exercises enabled its practitioners to transform their lives to better conform to nature and to be of service in their community.

The philosophy teacher's discourse could be presented in such a way that the disciple, as auditor, reader, or interlocutor, could make spiritual progress and transform himself within." Hadot shows that the key to understanding the original philosophical impulse is to be found in Socrates. What characterizes Socratic therapy above all is the importance given to living contact between human beings.

Hadot's recurring theme is that philosophy in Antiquity was characterized by a series of spiritual exercises intended to transform the perception, and therefore the being, of those who practice it; that philosophy is best pursued in real conversation and not through written texts and lectures; and that philosophy, as it is taught in universities today, is for the most part a distortion of its original, therapeutic impulse.

He brings these concerns together in What Is Ancient Philosophy?, which has been critically reviewed.

1994

In 1994 Hadot published an article entitled "There Are Nowadays Professors of Philosophy, but not Philosophers", in it Hadot shows us that the American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, via his book Walden, exemplifies the 'true philosopher', one who lives his philosophy by living simply in natural surroundings.

Much of what Hadot wrote about in his most popular books deals with the personal transformation experienced by people who 'lived philosophy' rather than those who studied philosophy as an academic endeavor.

Hadot didn't 'discover' the practice and benefits of 'spiritual exercises' but he 'rediscovered' it and brought it back into modern day philosophical conversation much like previous philosophers did in the past, namely, Erasmus, Montaigne, Descartes, Kant, Emerson, Marx, Nietzsche, William James, Wittgenstein, Jaspers, and Rilke.