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All the ideas for 'Philosophy as a way of life', 'Manuscript remains' and 'Herculaneum Papyrus'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

21916

Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9198	It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

9197	The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

21924

As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21915

To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

9196	The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

22241

Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus]