Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Pierre Hadot and Philosophy as Spiritual Exercises
1. Spiritual Exercises
1.1. Learning to Live
1.2. Learning to Dialogue
1.3. Learning to Die
1.4. Learning to Read
2. Philosophy as a Way of Life
Chapter 2 The Metaphysics of Marcel Conche
1. The Legacy of Marcel Conche’s Writing
2. What Conche Discussed in 2006
3. What Kind of Person Is a Philosopher?
4. From the Infinite to a Naturalistic Metaphysics
5. Contracted Time and Immense Time
Chapter 3 Alain Badiou on Happiness and Anti-Philosophy
1. My First Encounter with Badiou
2. Reading Metaphysics of Real Happiness
2.1. Philosophy and the Desire for Philosophy
2.2. Philosophy and Anti-Philosophy Put to the Test of Happiness
3. Facing the “Event” with Fidelity
Chapter 4 On Living, Philosophizing, and the Path Toward a Deeper Happiness
1. On Living and Philosophizing
2. “Lived Convictions” (Convictions vécues)
3. The Three-Layer Theory of Consciousness and Happiness
4. Conceptions of Time and Happiness
Afterword
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（2026年2月19日）