Philosophy as therapeia
By: edited by Clare Carlisle & Jonardon Ganeri
Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement -- 66; Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement -- 66.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780521165150
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245)
Table of contents: title: Medical analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic thought: tranquility and anger  -- Christopher W. Gowans; title: Rationality as the therapy of self-liberation in Spinoza's Ethics  -- Michael Hampe; title: Two pedagogies for happiness: healing goals and healing methods in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas and the Śrī Bhāṣya of Rāmānuja  -- Martin Ganeri; title: The thinker and the draughtsman: Wittgenstein, perspicuous relations, and "working on oneself"  -- Garry L. Hagberg; title: Therapy and theory reconstructed: Plato and his successors  -- Stephen R. L. Clark; title: The teacher as mother or midwife? A comparison of Brahminical and Socratic methods of education  -- Kate Wharton; title: A return to the self: Indians and Greeks on life as art  and philosophical therapy  -- Jonardon Ganeri; title: For mortal souls: philosophy and therapies in Nietzsche's Dawn  -- Keith Ansell Pearson; title: The philosopher as pathogenic agent, patient and therapist: the case of William James  -- Logi Gunnarsson; title: Curing diseases of belief and desire: Buddhist philosophical therapy  -- David Burton; title: Patañjali's yoga as therapeia -- Jayandra Soni.