Ilsetraut Hadot (born 20 December 1928) in

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, is a

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and historian of philosophy who specialised in

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and more generally in

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Biography

In 1978, Hadot won the Victor Cousin prize of the

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for her work ''The problem of Alexandrian Neoplatonism.'' ''Hierocles and Simplicius.'' In 2015, she received the François-Millepierres prize by the Académie for her work ''Seneca. Spiritual Direction and Practice of Philosophy''. In 1966, she graduated the Dr. Phil. at the

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about ''Seneca and Spiritual Direction in Antiquity''. She defended her State thesis in 1977, a Doctor of Arts at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV). She met Pierre Hadot during a symposium in

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in 1962 and they married in Berlin in 1966. He is also a specialist of

. Together, they wrote ''Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity'', in 2004.

Research works

Ilsetraut Hadot is a classical philologist and a specialist about

. She has written about

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, the history of

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in Antiquity and Neoplatonism. She has edited, commentated and translated the commentary of Simplicius, a Neoplatonist philosopher, about the ''

Enchiridion of Epictetus The ''Enchiridion'' or ''Handbook of Epictetus'' ( grc, Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, ''Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou'') is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epi ...

.''

Works

* Seneca und die Griechisch-Römische Tradition der Seelenleitung, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969, 232p. * (With

Pierre Hadot Pierre Hadot (; ; 21 February 1922 – 24 April 2010) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Neoplatonism. Life In 1944, Hadot was ordained, but following Pope Pius XII’s encyc ...

) ''Apprendre à philosopher dans l'Antiquité : L'enseignement du « Manuel d'Épictète » et son commentaire néoplatonicien'', ("Learn to Philosophize in Antiquity: the Lesson from Enchiridion of Epictetus and its Neoplatonician Commentary") Paris, Le Livre de Poche, 2004, 216 p. . * ''Arts libéraux et philosophie dans la pensée antique : Contribution à l'histoire de l'éducation et de la culture dans l'Antiquité ''("Liberal Arts and Philosophy in Ancient thought: Contribution at the history of education and culture in Antiquity"), Paris, Vrin, 2006, 576 p. . * ''Le Néoplatonicien Simplicius à la lumière des recherches contemporaines : Un bilan critique'' (The Neoplatonician Simplicius in light of contemporary researches: a critical appraisal) (with two contributions of Philippe Vallat), Saint Augustin, Academia Verlag, 2014, 309 p. . * ''Le Problème du néoplatonisme alexandrin : Hiéroclès et Simplicius ''(The Problem of alexandrian neoplatonism : Hierocles and Simplicius), Paris, Études augustiniennes, 1978, 243 p. . * ''Sénèque. Direction spirituelle et pratique de la philosophie ''(Seneca. Spiritual Direction and practice of philosophy), Paris, Vrin, 2014, 456 p. * ''Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles'', Philadelphia, American philosophical society, 2004, 152 p. * ''Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato'', Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2015, 188 p.

Translations, prefaces

, ''Consolations'', Paris, Payot & Rivages, 1992, 140 p. , translated by Colette Lazam, preface by Ilsetraut Hadot. * Simplicius, ''Commentaire sur les Catégories ''("Commentary about the Categories"), Leyde, Brill, 1989, ''Philosophia Antiqua'', 240 p. , translated under the direction of Ilsetraut Hadot. * Simplicius, ''Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Introduction & édition critique du texte grec par Ilsetraut Hadot ''("Commentary about the Enchiridion of Epictetus. Introduction & critical edition of the Greek text by Ilsetraut Hadot"), Leyden, New-York, Cologne, Brill, 1996, 479p. * Simplicius, ''Commentaire sur le Manuel d'Épictète. Chapitres I-XXIX ''("Commentary about the Enchiridion of Epictetus. Chapters I-XXIX"), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2001, 314 p.

Notes and References

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