Philosophical Counseling as Ethical Practice

Philosophy and Culture 37 (1):85-108 (2010)
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Philosophical Counseling philosophy of ancient Greece were the love of wisdom, and the nineteenth and twentieth century, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein's philosophy of treatment where a number of contributing to the inherited characteristics of philosophical counseling. For what is the philosophical counseling, in addition to tracing the history of philosophy to find the theoretical basis, the consultation can still view the site to explore the philosophical counseling can be made ​​with the object and scope of this analysis the application of philosophical counseling resistance and related characteristics. Usually people understand what is philosophy for counseling when there is confusion or difficulty, not so much a theory of abstract and vague, as it is because of philosophical counseling and psychological counseling practice problems caused by confusion. Many people first heard of "philosophical counseling" when will it always "psychological counseling" linked, regardless of whether or hear themselves familiar with psychological counseling, if psychological counseling has been learned or have been counseling experience. Even those philosophical counseling learners, so as always with their psychological counseling to understand the philosophical counseling, psychological counseling and even to evaluate the use of philosophical counseling. While learning new things can not help but want to take total known, related, similar things to help understand; However, to truly understand the new thing itself, we must take careful observation Differences between the two to be able to restore the original appearance of new things. This reasoning also applies to the understanding of philosophical counseling. Some scholars of philosophy through the critical analogue consultative approach to understand the philosophical counseling. This approach can easily lead in philosophical counseling and other counseling practices by the opposition. Compared with this, the author intended from psychological counseling and philosophical counseling as to face the consultative site as a starting point, through the consultative case the situation in the field of observation, from the resemblance to find the differences, and then analyze the differences makes us more be able to see each other. Philosophical counseling has drawn some attributes conducive to the development of philosophical counseling from the love of wisdom in ancient Greek philosophy as well as the 19 and 20 century philosophical therapy by Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. To grasp the nature of philosophical counseling, in addition to searching for theoretical grounds in the history of philosophy, we can also investigate the objects and categories that philosophical counseling can be applied to through examining the site of counseling and whereupon analyze the applicability and other relevant features of philosophical counseling. People's confusion about the nature of philosophical counseling is usually a result of confusion between philosophical counseling and psychological counseling rather than a consequence of theoretical abstraction and blur. Many of those who hear about philosophical counseling for the first time usually relate it to "psychological counseling, "no matter if they know psychological counseling well or if they studied" psychological counseling "or were counseled before. Even the students of philosophical counseling more than often comprehend philosophical counseling in terms of their own ideas about psychological counseling and even evaluate philosophical counseling in the light of psychological counseling. Though one always learns new knowledge by means of the known, related or similar matters, to really understand the new knowledge itself, one has to examine carefully the differences in between. Only then, we can see the new knowledge as it really is. Such a principle can also be applied to the comprehension of philosophical counseling. Some scholars of philosophical counseling understand it through criticizing similar disciplines, which tends to pit the practitioners of philosophical counseling against other counselors. In contrast, the writer will begin with what psychological counseling and philosophical counseling have in common, that is, the site of counseling. Observing the situation of the client at the site of counseling, we try to look for differences among similarities and, furthermore, analyze these differences. In this way , we can understand one another even more

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