EDUCATION IN ANTIQUITY

PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE AS AN EXERCISE FOR PSYCHAGOGY

Abstract

The article presents the concept of philosophy as a way of living, developed by Pierre Hadot, when investigating ancient philosophy and its philosophical schools. In analysing Antiquity, the historian and philosopher understands that philosophical discourses run the risk of being ambiguous if they are not part of a philosophical life or a way of life that can be characterized as philosophical. Despite the diversity of philosophical thought back in antiquity, philosophical discourse effectively participates in the way of life, and the philosopher's choice of life determines his discourse. Philosophy, in this perspective, is not dissociated from the choices of a way of life, from the personal experience that proposes an idea of formation, from a psychagogic education and from an exercise towards the path of wisdom.