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sb397656c9v	Robert E. McFadden	A Tale of Ciceronian Christians: Spiritual Exercises and Friendship in the Cassiciacum Dialogues of St. Augustine	1904		.txt	text/plain	302	10	43	According to Pierre Hadot, ancient philosophers saw the Socratic Method as well as the oratio perpetua (continuous speech) as spiritual exercises, that is to say, exercises of reason (Philosophy as a Way of Life, 59).In the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero used these exercises as a means to become friends with Wisdom so that his fellow Romans could learn how to accept death and form philosophical friendships. Augustine adopted Cicero's Tusculans for his own purpose and utilized the Socratic Method and the oratio perpetua as spiritual exercises.	cache/sb397656c9v.txt	txt/sb397656c9v.txt