Philosophy As Therapeia

Klappentext Essays by leading scholars providing a new reading of the history of philosophy, through the concept of philosophy as therapeia. Zusammenfassung Addressing the concept of philosophy as therapeia! this collection of essays by leading scholars provides a new reading of the history of philosophy! contradicting those who have wanted to maintain that philosophy is a peculiarly European cultural product! and instead affirming its identity as a global intellectual practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Medical analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic thought: tranquillity and anger Christopher Gowans; 2. Rationality as the therapy of self-liberation in Spinoza's Ethics Michael Hampe; 3. Two pedagogies for happiness: healing goals and healing methods in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas and the ¿rÿ Bh¿ya of R¿m¿nuja Martin Ganeri; 4. The thinker and the draughtsman: Wittgenstein, perspicuous relations, and 'working on oneself' Garry L. Hagberg; 5. Therapy and theory reconstructed: Plato and his successors Stephen R. L. Clark; 6. The teacher as mother or midwife? A comparison of Brahminical and Socratic methods of education Kate Wharton; 7. A return to the self: Indians and Greeks on life as art and philosophical therapy Jonardon Ganeri; 8. For mortal souls: philosophy and therapeia in Nietzsche's Dawn Keith Ansell Pearson; 9. The philosopher as pathogenic agent, patient and therapist: the case of William James Logi Gunnarsson; 10. Curing diseases of belief and desire: Buddhist philosophical therapy David Burton; 11. Patäjali's yoga as therapeia Jayandra Soni; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Clare (University of Liverpool) Ganeri Carlisle, Clare Ganeri Carlisle
• Assisted by: Clare Carlisle (Editor), Clare (University of Liverpool) Carlisle (Editor), Jonardon Ganeri (Editor), Jonardon (University of Sussex) Ganeri (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521165150
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16515-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy; Royal Institute of Philosophy; Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Essays