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Philosophical Counseling is nothing more - and nothing less - than the practice of millennia: exploring what we can know, and how we might live. This requires individual reflection, but often also talking with others. Through dialogue, we see objections and alternatives, gain perspective and clarity, discover new dimensions and possibilities, and often see what is hidden in plain sight.
Philosophical Counseling allows probing dialogue with another person - someone who has learned from the school of life, and also from philosophical schools. It helps see how brilliant minds from the past can light the way forward - not necessarily by adopting their ideas, but by philosophizing yourself. It can bring understanding and appreciation, greater sensitivity and depth, and often greater peace
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
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