Hélder Telo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4365993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hélder Telo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hélder |
| FAMILY NAME | Telo |
| SIGNATURE | TELO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Beira Interior |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4704-9288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Suicide in Roman Philosophy
The topic of suicide plays a prominent role in the writings of Roman philosophers such as Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca, and Epictetus. Although this can easily be viewed as a manifestation of pessimism or even morbidity, this chapter contends that they actually considered suicide—whether as an act or as a possibility one contemplates—as an essential component of happiness in two different ways. First, they considered that a well-reasoned suicide is …
Philosophical Dogmas or Questions? A Defense of Philosophical Questioning as a Way of Life
This article compares two different ways of construing philosophy as a way of life (PWL), examining how they influence our understanding of the philosophical tradition and of philosophy today.First, I demonstrate that scholars (including Hadot himself at many points) tend to view PWL as involving a set of philosophical "dogmas" (i.e., doctrines, arguments, or discourse) that are to be implemented in our lives through special practices or spiritua…
The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”
Preview: 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 de…
Academic Philosophy as a Way of Life
Philosophy as a Way of LifeOver the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as a way of life (PWL) has gained undeniable prominence in contemporary debates about the nature and function of philosophy.Pierre Hadot forged the notion to denote the specific way in which ancient philosophers conceived of and practiced philosophy, stressing its performative character and its potential for self-transformation on the basis of what he called "spiritual e…
Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy
International audience
Plato’s Philosophical Mimesis
This article addresses two often perplexing traits in Plato’s philosophical style: first, the fact that Plato’s writings are mimetic, despite the strong criticisms of mimesis we find therein; second, the fact that this mimesis not only features the constitutive defects inherent to any mimesis, but Plato actually increases its imperfection by adding other manifest defects. Based on epistemological and psychological views taken from the Platonic co…
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Plato’s Philosophical Mimesis
This article addresses two often perplexing traits in Plato’s philosophical style: first, the fact that Plato’s writings are mimetic, despite the strong criticisms of mimesis we find therein; second, the fact that this mimesis not only features the constitutive defects inherent to any mimesis, but Plato actually increases its imperfection by adding other manifest defects. Based on epistemological and psychological views taken from the Platonic co…
Philosophical Dogmas or Questions? A Defense of Philosophical Questioning as a Way of Life
This article compares two different ways of construing philosophy as a way of life (PWL), examining how they influence our understanding of the philosophical tradition and of philosophy today.First, I demonstrate that scholars (including Hadot himself at many points) tend to view PWL as involving a set of philosophical "dogmas" (i.e., doctrines, arguments, or discourse) that are to be implemented in our lives through special practices or spiritua…
The Notion of “Philosophy as a Way of Life”
Preview: 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 de…
Academic Philosophy as a Way of Life
Philosophy as a Way of LifeOver the past few decades, the idea of philosophy as a way of life (PWL) has gained undeniable prominence in contemporary debates about the nature and function of philosophy.Pierre Hadot forged the notion to denote the specific way in which ancient philosophers conceived of and practiced philosophy, stressing its performative character and its potential for self-transformation on the basis of what he called "spiritual e…
Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy
International audience
Suicide in Roman Philosophy
The topic of suicide plays a prominent role in the writings of Roman philosophers such as Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca, and Epictetus. Although this can easily be viewed as a manifestation of pessimism or even morbidity, this chapter contends that they actually considered suicide—whether as an act or as a possibility one contemplates—as an essential component of happiness in two different ways. First, they considered that a well-reasoned suicide is …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Philosophical methodology (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)