# Pierre Hadot

- Id: `hadot`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/hadot/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `2520f5c83ab3577455a20300c6d5cbf23fd775b0b2cbce7d2160c7b6cf062643`

## Summary

A French historian of philosophy, Pierre Hadot showed that ancient philosophy was a way of living, trained through spiritual exercises.

## Overview

Pierre Hadot died on 24 April 2010.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1922–2010",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "16–104 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 88
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Modern philosophy-as-practice scholar",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Modern philosophy-as-practice scholar"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 2010,
    "display": "2010 CE",
    "reason": "Pierre Hadot died on 24 April 2010."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 2040,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "1922; academic career",
        "description": "Birth, then CNRS, EPHE and Collège de France career.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/chaire/pierre-hadot-histoire-de-la-pensee-hellenistique-et-romaine-chaire-statutaire"
    },
    {
        "name": "Orsay",
        "period": "2010",
        "description": "Documented place of death.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/chaire/pierre-hadot-histoire-de-la-pensee-hellenistique-et-romaine-chaire-statutaire"
    }
]
```