Tag: Admiration

• July 15, 2014

  Envy and admiration: Some important remarks about higher forms of life

  1. Now more clearly than before, it occurs to me that all higher forms of life will require renunciation. At the moment of severance, the renunciant points to the lower, gives it a name, and frees himself from its hold. As Hadot shows in his work on ancient philosophy, the ancient philosopher must sever himself from…