Philosophy as therapeia / edited by Clare Carlisle & Jonardon Ganeri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlisle, Clare, 1977-

Ganeri, Jonardon.

Series:

Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 66.

Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement, 1358-2461 ; 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Therapeutic use.

Philosophy.

Interpretation (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

vii, 245 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2010]

Contents:

Medical analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic thought: tranquility and anger / Christopher W. Gowans

Rationality as the therapy of self-liberation in Spinoza's Ethics / Michael Hampe

Two pedagogies for happiness: healing goals and healing methods in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas and the Śrī Bhāṣya of Rāmānuja / Martin Ganeri

The thinker and the draughtsman: Wittgenstein, perspicuous relations, and "working on oneself" / Garry L. Hagberg

Therapy and theory reconstructed: Plato and his successors / Stephen R. L. Clark

The teacher as mother or midwife? A comparison of Brahminical and Socratic methods of education / Kate Wharton

A return to the self: Indians and Greeks on life as art and philosophical therapy / Jonardon Ganeri

For mortal souls: philosophy and therapies in Nietzsche's Dawn / Keith Ansell Pearson

The philosopher as pathogenic agent, patient and therapist: the case of William James / Logi Gunnarsson

Curing diseases of belief and desire: Buddhist philosophical therapy / David Burton

Patañjali's yoga as therapeia / Jayandra Soni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245)

ISBN:

9780521165150

0521165156

OCLC:

617495369