“Philosophy as a way of life” has its roots in ancient ethics and has attracted renewed interest in recent decades. The aim in this paper is to construct a contemporized image of Socrates, consistent with the textual evidence. The account defers concern over analytical/theoretical inquiry into virtue, in favor of a neo‐existentialist process of self‐examination informed by the virtue of what is called “moral seriousness.” This process is modeled on Frankfurt’s hierarchical account of self‐identification, and the paper suggests an expansion of Frankfurt’s concept of a person to include “full” personhood, in which the apprehended “meaning” of one’s “whole life” is taken as a necessary condition for eudaimonia (meaning of life) and is characterized by phenomenological transcendence. In addition, the importance of the informed scrutiny of a community of philosophers to the self‐examination process is discussed.

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道德认真

“作为一种生活方式的哲学”源于古代伦理学，近几十年来引起了新的兴趣。本文的目的是构建与文本证据一致的当代的苏格拉底形象。该账户推迟了对对美德的分析/理论探究的担忧，而赞成借助所谓的“道德严肃性”来告知新存在主义的自省过程。此过程以法兰克福对自我认同的等级说明为模型，并且本文建议将法兰克福的人的概念扩展为包括“完整”人格，其中将人们“整个生命”的理解“含义”视为必要条件Eudaimonia（生命的意义）的状态，其特征是现象学上的超越。此外，