The Charm of Philosophical Psychology

C’est seulement en suivant les cours de psychologie – matière que j’avais choisie pour les trois années suivantes à l’université – que j’ai compris pourquoi la philosophie moderne semblait stérile: il lui manque une compréhension approfondie de la nature humaine. Les philosophes antiques étaient pour la plupart de bons psychologues (on en a déjà di

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Unavoidably, I am biased towards those philosophies that sit best with my personality. My nature is a little on the introverted side, which is ideal for our purposes, as the vast majority of philosophers are and were too. More extrovert personalities might find themselves constitutionally unsuited to chunks of this book’s advice, but as we all exis

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What I was interested in was not solely Adlerian psychology but rather something that had emerged through the filter of the philosopher, Ichiro Kishimi: It was Kishimi-Adler studies that I was seeking. Grounded in the thought of Socrates and Plato and other ancient Greek philosophers, the Adlerian psychology that Kishimi conveys to us reveals Adler

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