Review of Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, 362 pp. xiv. Albert Keith Whitaker. Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?, trans. Michael Chase, Cambridge, Mass. /London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002 A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all tended toward one goal: to provide a means for achieving happiness in this life, by transforming the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world. Pierre Hadot shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all strove to transform the individual's mode of Nevertheless, Hadot argues that since the Middle Ages, philosophers both Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Most pressing for Hadot is the question of how the ancients conceived of philosophy. Pierre Hadot shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all strove to transform the individual's mode of Pierre Hadot shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all strove to transform the individual's mode of Pierre Hadot makes very clear what he thinks it is not: it is not the deposit constitute the “philosophical discourse” of the ancient philosophers.
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