"First published as Metaphilosophy volume 51, nos. 2-3 (April 2020)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani, and Kathleen Wallace -- Ancient Greek philosophia in India as a way of life / Christopher Moore -- Philosophy and the good life in the Zhuangzi / Pengbo Liu -- Esoteric Confucianism, moral dilemmas, and filial piety / William Sin -- Renaissance humanism and philosophy as a way of life / John Sellars -- Cartesian philosophy as spiritual practice / Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. -- Leibniz's philosophy as a way of life? / Paul Lodge -- Philosophy as a feminist spirituality and critical practice for Mary Astell / Simone Webb -- Nietzsche and Unamuno on conatus and the agapeic way of life / Alberto Oya -- Ways of discourse and ways of life : Plato on the conflict between poetry and philosophy / I-Kai Jeng -- Stoicism and its telos : insights from Michel Foucault / Robin Weiss -- Philosophy as a way of life today : history, criticism, and apology / Marta Faustino -- Setting limits to practical reflection : against philosophy as a way of life / Vitor Sommavilla -- What it takes to live philosophically : or, how to progress in the art of living / Caleb Cohoe and Stephen R. Grimm -- Why practice philosophy as a way of life? / Javier Hidalgo -- On the benefits of philosophy as a way of life in a general introductory course / Jake Wright -- Philosophy as empirical exploration of living : an approach to courses in philosophy as a way of life / Steven Horst.

"In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. For philosophers today to ignore this dimension of philosophy is not to ignore an accidental subset of the subject that can be divorced from its essential nature - it is to ignore philosophy itself. The articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdom; it is not merely an addendum to it. But how might we convey the love of wisdom as not only a body of dogmatic principles and axiomatic truths but also a lived exercise that can be practiced? This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world"-- Provided by publisher.