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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, Neoplatonism and more generally in Ancient Philosophy.

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 Free University of Berlin about ''Seneca and Spiritual Direction in Antiquity''. She defended her State thesis in 1977, a

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

Research works

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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.''

Works

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

* Seneca, ''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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