APPA’s Journal Featured on Daisaku Ikeda’s Website
APPA’s November 2024 special issue on Daisaku Ikeda is featured on his website
When Philosophers Become Therapists
The philosophical-counselling movement aims to apply heady, logical insights to daily life.
Read more at The New Yorker
WISDOM @ WORK
What is the value of philosophy in everyday life and work? Can philosophy offer us not just a way of life, but a way to make a living?
Read more at David Storey
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Marin Smillov: The new normal and a nation on the rise
We are at war with an invisible enemy, COVID-19. We have suffered the loss of many lives: loved ones, friends, neighbors and other fellow Americans.
Read more at The Gainsville Sun
Philosophy and Happiness, by Ashwini Mokashi
‘Philosophy and Happiness, LLC’ has been formed in New Jersey during the Covid times to respond to the need for dealing with mental health challenges among people and help them with Philosophical Counseling.
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The Doughnut Dilemma and How Aristotle Solved It
What mom taught you at the playground still applies.
Read more at Psychology Today
Philosophical Midwifery with Pierre Grimes
Pierre Grimes, PhD, is a specialist in classical Greek philosophy. He is the founder of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. He is also founder of the Noetic Society in the Los Angeles area. He is author of Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems, Socrates and Jesus: A Dialogue in Heaven, and Unblocking:…
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The secret to office happiness isn’t working less—it’s caring less
We live in an age of “total work.” It’s a term coined by the German philosopher Josef Pieper just after World War II—describing the process by which human beings are transformed into workers, and the entirety of life is then transformed into work.
Read more at Quartz
Rationally Speaking with Massimo Pigliucci
Rationally Speaking is a blog maintained by Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, a philosopher at the City University of New York.
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Questioning is like playing the piano
Suppose your client/colleague says : “I think you should work as hard as you can in life”! You might think : “I don’t agree. Life is more than working hard”. Having had this thought, it is difficult not to start convincing your client of your opinion.
Read more at Kristof Van Rossem
Stand Up Philosophy
Comical highlights of Lou’s closing speech to an audience of philosophers, at the 10th International Conference on Philosophical Practice. (Leusden, The Netherlands, 2010)
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Inaugural Episode of Leading Minds: David Brendel interviews Lou Marinoff
In Germany they’re called “diseases of civilization”; in Japan, “lifestyle maladies”; in Sweden, “diseases of affluence.” The USA leads the world in producing them, but doesn’t even have a name for them.
Listen at Voice America