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The founding texts of Greek philosophy, after all, were notes taken from oral exercises undertaken in concrete circumstances and contexts, most often a dialogue between students and specific interlocutors who meant to shed light on their students' real existence. 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Dans son oeuvre tres importante rappellons d'abord son edition-commentaire de Marius Victorinus (Sources chretiennes n69), Porphyre et Victorinus (Paris, Etudes augustieniennes 1968), ou toute la metaphysique neo-platonicienne est reconstituee; sa serie de traductions avec commentaires de traites de Plotin (Paris, Le Cerf depuis 1988), et tout un ensemble de travaux consacres a la philosophie hellenistque et romaine: Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (1981; Albin-Michel, 2002), Introduction aux pensees de Marc-Aurele. La citadelle interieure (Paris, Fayard, 1992). 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