2024-04Editorial
The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”: Ambiguities and Open Questions

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Philosophy as a way of life (PWL) is an emerging field of study which in the last decades has experienced a vibrant and multifaceted development. Particularly proliferous in the areas of metaphilosophy and the history of philosophy, PWL has also been applied to a wide variety of knowledge domains beyond the academic world. Ever more prominent in contemporary debates, PWL has become a banner under which a very diversified work is being developed by scholars with originally very different areas of research and expertise, who gather under PWL by their dissatisfaction with what has become of philosophy (an abstract and purely theoretical undertaking) and their hopes about what philosophy can be (a way of thinking about and transforming one’s life).
Despite the dynamic development of PWL and the wealth of literature it has inspired in recent years – or precisely because of it – there is still no consensus on what it precisely means. What exactly does this expression contain? What does it entail? To what extent is it clear and univocal? And how clear and univocal should it be?

How to cite:

Kramer, Eli, Marta Faustino, and Hélder Telo. “The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”: Ambiguities and Open Questions” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 8, no. 4 (2024): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2024.0021.

Author:

Eli Kramer
Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław
ul. Koszarowa 3/20, 51-149 Wrocław, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7535-030X
eliorner.kramer@uwr.edu.pl

Marta Faustino
IFILNOVA (Nova Institute of Philosophy), NOVA University of Lisbon
Avenida de Berna 26C, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5492-8539
martafaustino@fcsh.unl.pt

Hélder Telo
PRAXIS – Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture, University of Beira Interior
Convento de Sto. António, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-9288
helder.telo@ubi.pt

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