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also "Philosophy as a Way of Life," this volume. Hadot also develops this theme at the conclusion of his unpublished paper on Thoreau's Walden,/'Reflexions sur Walden," delivered at the Ecole Nonnale Superieure, June 1993.

161 Cited by Hadot in "La philosophic antique: une ethique ou une pratique?,"

pp. 1 3-14.

1 62 Cited in "Philosophy as a Way of Life," this volume, p. 267.

1 63 Epictetus, Discourses, IV, 4, 1 3 . Cited in Hadot, "La philosophic antique: une Cthique OU une pratique?," p. 2 1 .

1 64 Cited by Ilsetraut Hadot, "Aristote dans l'enseignement philosophique neoplatonicien. Les prefaces des commentaires sur Jes Categories," Revue de thtologie et de phi/osophie 1 24 ( 1 992), p. 4 1 9, n. 38.

1 65 Hadot, "La philosophic antique: une ethique ou une pratique?," pp. 28-9.

1 66 Pierre Hadot, "Le Genie du lieu dans la Grece antique,'' in Michel Crepu, Richard Figuier, and Rene Louis, eds, Hauls lieux, Paris 1 990, p. 1 50. For a discussion of the role of this fragment, especially in the mysticism of Pseudo

Dionysius, see Ysabel de Andia, "na9ci>u ta �eta", in Stephen Gersh and Charles Kannengiesser, eds, Platonism in late Antiqui(y, Notre Dame 1 992.

1 67 Hadot, "Le Genie du lieu dans la Grece antique,'' p. 1 50. Hadot is following the interpretation of D. Sabbatucci, Essai sur le mysticisme gru, Paris 1 982.

1 68 1-ladot, "Le Genie du lieu dans la Grece antique,'' p. 1 50, my emphasis.

1 69 Hadot, "La philosophic antique: une ethique ou une pratique?," p. 34.

1 70 Ibid.

1 7 1 Ibid. p. 35. For extensive discussion, see Pierre Hadot, Plotin. Traite 38, Paris 1 988, pp. 44-52 and 347-5 1 .

1 72 Hadot, Plotin. Traite 38, reading together p. 45 and p . 349.

1 73 Pierre Hadot, "Apophatisme et theologie negative,'' in Exercices spirituels, p. 193.

1 74 Hadot, "Le Genie du lieu dans la Grece antique,'' p. 1 52, my emphasis. For a discussion of Hadot's interpretation of Plotinus' mysticism, see my "Reading Hadot reading Plotinus," intro. in Pierre Hadot, Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision, Chicago 1993 .

1 75 Pierre Hadot, "Postface a la seconde edition," in Exercices spirituels, p. 236.

1 76 Ibid .

1 77 Natali, Bios Theoretikos, pp. 1 37-8. Natali's remark is made with particular reference to On the Parts of Ani,,1als, 645a 7-1 0. For the dangers of viewing Aristotle as if he were a modern university professor, and as if the life of theoria were purely abstract, or the career of a modern scientist, see Natali, Bios Theoretikos, pp. 67-74 and 1 29-38.

1 78 Pierre Hadot, "Les modeles de bonheur proposes par les philosophes antiques,''

la Vie spirituelle ( Jan.-Feb. 1 992), pp. 34-6. See also Hadot, "Postface a la seconde edition,'' p. 236. Hadot has in mind primarily Nicomachean Ethics, X, 7, and Metaphysics, I 072b 28.

1 79 Aristotle, Politics, VII, 3, 8, 1 325b. Cited by Hadot in "La philosophic antique: unc i:thiquc ou une pratique?," pp. 3 1 -2.

1 80 lladot, "La philosophic antique: une i:thique ou une pratique?," p. 3 1 , my emphasis.

I H I Ibid, ,, . .

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1 82 Hadot, "Preface,'' in Dictionnaire des ph1Josophes antiques, pp. 1 1-12.

1 83 Ibid.

1 84 "Philosophy as a Way of Life,'' this volume, pp. 272-3.

1 85 Hadot, "Preface,'' in Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, p. 13.

1 86 Ibid.

1 87 Ibid. See also "Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy,''

this volume, pp. 55-8.

1 88 Giuseppe Cambiano, "La figura del filosofo e le altre forme del sapere," Quaderni di Storia XIX, 37 (Jan.-June 1993), p. 8 1 .

1 89 On the importance o f the act o f conversion, see Pierre Hadot, "Epistrophe et metanoia dans l'histoire de la philosophic,'' in Actes du Xl'"" congres international de philosophie, XII, Amsterdam 1953, and Pierre Hadot, "Conversion," in Exercices spirituels.

190 Pierre Hadot, "La philosophic hellenistique,'' in Histoire de la philosophie. I. Les pensees fondatrices, Paris 1 993, pp. 69-70. See also Hadot, "Presentation au College International de Philosophic,'' pp. H.

1 9 1 Hadot, "Presentation au College International de Philosophic," p. 3 .

1 92 Ibid, reading together p. 7 and p. 6.

1 93 Ibid, p. 5.

1 94 Pierre Hadot, "La philosophic est-elle un luxe?," Le Monde de / 'education (Mar. 1992), p. 9 1 .

1 95 Jhid.

1 96 Reading together ibid p. 92, and Hadot, "Presentation au College International de Philosophic,'' p. 9.

1 97 On early Christianity as a philosophy, see "Ancient Spiritual Exercises and

'Christian Philosophy"' and "Philosophy as a Way of Life," this volume. The quoted words come from Hadot, "Presentation au College International de Philosophic," p. 7.