Dialogue & Method
How does Socratic dialogue work?
From Socrates to the Nelson–Heckmann tradition: the method's steps, regressive abstraction, and why it is no mere technique.
Words take flight; what is carved in stone remains — writing, a monument against forgetting.
Reflections on philosophy, psychology, and well-being — grounded in their sources, unhurried and considered.
Dialogue & Method
From Socrates to the Nelson–Heckmann tradition: the method's steps, regressive abstraction, and why it is no mere technique.
Existence & Anxiety
Ordinary anxiety, neurotic anxiety and the line between them: Kierkegaard's anxiety, Marinoff's distinction, and dialogue instead of diagnosis.
Existence & Meaning
The approach that looks at the life behind the symptom: the objection to the objectified human, Maslow's definition, the self-and-others principle, and the will to meaning.
Philosophy & Therapy
A reckoning with the life slipping through your hands: Achenbach's philosophical practice, Socratic dialogue, boundary situations and the question behind the symptom.
Virtue & Transcendence
Gratitude is more than saying thanks: a way of seeing what is good. From Cicero to the laboratory — the evidence behind Three Good Things and the Gratitude Letter.
Virtue & Knowledge
Plato's Meno opens with a single question and unfolds into a whole itinerary of thought: three attempted definitions, a slave boy's geometry, recollection — and the divide between knowledge and true opinion.
Virtue & Measure
Having a virtue is not enough — one must know when and how much to use it. Positive psychology's master strength meets Aristotle's doctrine of measure.
Virtue & Well-being
A study of more than five thousand people asks which character strengths bind most closely to life satisfaction — and finds its answer meeting an intuition Aristotle voiced centuries ago.
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