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If you're facing a dilemma -- whether it's handling a relationship, living ethically, dealing with a career change, or finding meaning in life -- the world's most important thinkers from centuries past will help guide you toward a solution compatible with your individual beliefs. From Kirkegaard's thoughts on coping with death to the I Ching's guidelines on adapting to change, Plato, Not Prozac! makes philosophy accessible and shows you how to use it to solve your everyday problems. Gone is the need for expensive therapists, medication, and lengthy analysis. Clearly organized by common problems to help you tailor Dr. Lou Marinoff's advice to your own needs, this is an intelligent, effective, and persuasive prescription for self-healing therapy that is giving psychotherapy a run for its money.
On Human Conflict excavates the cavernous philosophical foundations
of war and peace. The magnum opus is bracketed by the author's
experience of the Cuban missile crisis as a schoolboy, and his
witnessing of 9/11 as an adult. It studies the human species with
an admixture of evolutionary insight, free-ranging horror, and
heavily-guarded optimism. It is also the uncensored voice of a
conservative philosopher who dares to speak his mind on
contemporary conflicts-including the "culture" and "gender" wars,
and Islamic jihad-in an age when political correctness has lowered
an "Ivy Curtain" prohibiting freedom of expression on campus, and
across Western civilization entire.
This book provides a look at philosophical practice from the
viewpoint of the practitioner or prospective practitioner. It
answers the questions: What is philosophical practice? What are its
aims and methods? How does philosophical counseling differ from
psychological counseling and other forms of psychotherapy. How are
philosophical practitioners educated and trained? How do
philosophical practitioners relate to other professions? What are
the politics of philosophical practice? How does one become a
practitioner? What is APPA Certification? What are the prospects
for philosophical practice in the USA and elsewhere?
Handbook of Philosophical Practice provides an account of
philosophy's current renaissance as a discipline of applied
practice while critiquing the historical, social, and cultural
forces which have contributed to its earlier descent into
obscurity.
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