Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Pierre Hadot
Born: February 21, 1922
Died: April 24, 2010 (aged 88)
Bio: Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Neoplatonism.
Known for:
- Philosophy as a way of life
- What Is Ancient Philosophy? (2002)
- The inner citadel (1998)
- Plotinus, or, The simplicity of vision (1993)
- The Veil of Isis (2006)