Hadot, “The Present Alone is Our Happiness”
“The Present Alone is Our Joy: The Meaning of the Present Instant in Goethe and Ancient Philosophy”
Illich, “The Cultivation of Conspiracy” in The Challenges of Ivan Illich
Recommended:
Illich, “To Hell with Good Intentions”
Sharpe, “‘To Not Forget’: Hadot’s Last Book on Goethe”
Reading:
Antonio de Nicolás, “The Native, General Background of Ignatius of Loyola”
Chapter One: de Nicolás, Powers of Imagining: A Philosophical Hermeneutic of Imagining through the Collected Works of Ignatius de Loyola
PDF here or Read online at the Internet archive here
Background Reading:
Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises also in de Nicolás, Powers of Imagining
de Nicolás, “Imagining”; “A Text for Reading, A Text for Deciding” (in Powers of Imagining)
Illich, “Scholastic Reading” (in In the Vineyard of the Text)
Reading
Foucault, “The Body” (in: The Care of the Self)
Plato, Phaedrus; Foucault, The Use of Pleasure
Hadot, “Reflections on the Idea of the Cultivation of the Self” (in Philosophy as a Way of Life)
Flynn, “Philosophy as a Way of Life: Foucault and Hadot”
Miller, “The Art of Self-Fashioning”
Lucian, The Downward Journey
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Background
Goethe, Faust
Recommended
Smith, “Account of the Death of David Hume, Esq.”
Babich, “Signatures and Taste”
Mancini, “Twelve Things You Might Not Know”
Zipes, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Harry Potter, and Why Magic Matters”
