"Philosophy as a Way of Life: Toward a Deeper Happiness"

Yakura H: Philosophy as a Way of Life: Toward a Deeper Happiness --- Thinking with Hadot, Conche, and Badiou. ISHE Press, Tokyo, Japan

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This book is an essay in which the author reflects on the thought of three major contemporary French philosophers—Pierre Hadot, Marcel Conche, and Alain Badiou—whose works have been read and discussed in the “Bergson Café,” a reading group the author has led since 2017. Through revisiting their ideas, the book explores, in a deeply meditative manner, what it means to philosophize, what it means to live, and how these questions are profoundly intertwined with the fundamental issue of happiness. Interwoven throughout is the author’s own original conception of happiness. Within the wisdom of humanity presented here—from antiquity to the present—readers will find invaluable insights that offer vital clues for living in the age of AI.