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Most of us think of philosophy as something reserved for daydreamers and academics, something abstract and theoretical with no practical role in our everyday lives. This is an ironic misconception of a word that literally means love (philo) of wisdom (sophia) and has touched virtually every aspect of human life.

The practice of philosophy is, most fundamentally, one of thinking about our world more deeply. It is a way of developing self-knowledge, a path toward unbiased experience, a method for creating your most fulfilling life. To paraphrase Epicurus, philosophy is the medicine of the mind, a remedy for the suffering soul.

Philosophic Medicine uses practical philosophy—philosophical counseling, consulting, and coaching—to help individuals, couples and groups change the way they see the world and engage with it, opening hearts and minds to more harmonious ways of life.

 
 

Recent Reflections

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Finding your way

Being committed to some truth, some decided upon way of life, limits us to think about things from a certain fixed perspective that is demonstrably at odds with our experience of things. Doing this all but guarantees a limit to our understanding and is thereby not a very philosophical way of life.

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Part III: Being wrong, being wronged, and forgiving

Each of us must make the decision whether to forgive and thus serve as an exemplar of the way of Heaven, Nirvana, epistemic humility. This is centrally a decision about whether to seek greater understanding than we currently possess. We begin by recognizing the limits of our own thinking and proceed by deepening that recognition, not obviating it, nor even seeking to.

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Part II: Being wrong, being wronged, and forgiving

We must be prepared to submit all of our own ideas to the same scrutiny as any other ideas. But in order to even know what our own ideas are, we must continually explore our world’s philosophical terrain. This means the only thing we can rely on as stable is the activity of critical inquiry itself, since employing it today could always lead us away from a position it led to yesterday.

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