Philosophy as the Art of Life


	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Kačerauskas, T. Philosophy as the Art of Life // Philosophy and Culture. 2010. № 6. P. 14-20. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=57432 Kačerauskas, T. Philosophy as the Art of Life Abstract: The author of the article analyzes how philosophy and existential are connected. Existential is interpreted as a story written in the spiritual background of existence. Being the ‘school of entrance’ (ex-sistus), philosophy is the ‘techne’ of this existential writing. Based on the author, life is a stream and we give it a certain order when we inscribe life events in that existential story. The author of the existential story creates his own author who, in his turn, helps the author to revive. Death and birth are also complementary factors of this existential creativity. Death gives integrity to the existential story and birth or revival makes it flexible and moving. According to the author, death and birth are of similar nature but they are not identical. Developing his views on these matters, the author used the conceptions of existential phenomenology (Heidegger, Husserl) which had applied not only to modern philosophers such as Arendt) but also antique philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle) Keywords: techne of life, existential history, spiritual background, author and hero, birth and death This article is unavailable for unregistered users. Click to login or register References 1. Vita activa oder Vom tätigen Leben. Stuttgart. Aristotele (1924) 2. Metaphysics, ed. W. D. Ross. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. Aristotelis (1990) „Nikomacho etika“, in 3. Rinktiniai raštai. Vilnius: Mintis. Aristotelis (1929) 4. Politica. Recognovit Otto Immisch. Leipzig und Berlin: Lipsiae in aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Habermas, J. (1994) 5. Die Moderne – ein unvollendetes Projekt. Leipzig: Reclam Verlag. Hadot P. (1991) 6. Philosophie als Lebensform. Berlin: Verlag Mathias Gatza. Heidegger, M. (1993) 7. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. Husserl E. (1952) Ideen zu reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie II // 8. Husserliana IV. Hg. M. Biemel Haag: Martinus Nijhoff. Kačerauskas, T. (2007) „Egzistencinė kalba ir kalbinė egzistencija“, 9. Santalka 15(3). Kierkegaard S. (1952) 10. Der Begriff Angst. Düsseldorf: Eugen Dietrichs Verlag. Levinas E. (1984) 11. Totalité et Infini. Essai sur l’Extériorité. Haag: Martinus Nijhoff. Markas Aurelijus (2005) 12. Sau pačiam. Vilnius: Alma littera. Mintis. Mouffe Ch. (1993) 13. The Return of the Political. London: Verso. Platonas (1996) 14. Faidras. Vilnius: Aidai. Schmidt C. (1963) 15. Der Begriff des Politischen. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. Bakhtin M. (2000) 16. Avtor i geroy. Sankt-Peterburg: Azbuka. Platon (1999) „Menon“, v 17. Apologiya Sokrata, Kriton, Ion, Protagor. Moskva: Mysl'

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