摘要：Choosing a way of life is not located at the end of a process of philosophical activity, asan appendix, but at the beginning, as tension between the global vision of a way of livingand seeing the world, and the voluntary and theoretical decision itself that involves thecreation of a doctrine and a way of teaching. Thus, philosophical discourse originates ina vital choice and an existential choice and not vice versa. In Hellenistic philosophy anotherunusual and curious fact acquires uniqueness, which is that this decision is nevertaken alone; no philosophy or philosophers exist outside a group or philosophical school,outside of a vital community, and not just of ideas. This is why one is characterized by aunique way of living, a conversion of his being, which requires a desire to be a certain wayand to live in a certain way and to teach this.
