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Ran Lahav: the goal of philosophical practice

In questo video, Ran Lahav , interessante teorico della pratica e della consulenza filosofica parla della sua conception of philosophical practice during the first national conference of the philosophical practice of Peru, held at the National University of San Marcos in Lima in February 2007.

Below the Italian translation. Some premises. Lahav when talking about "first vision" second window etc refers to the different conceptions of philosophical counseling. The first view is the conception of philosophical counseling as a work of clarification and language that is generally used within the nursing profession. The second vision, as stated by the Lahav, sees the philosophical counseling as a self-understanding. The third as a way of life. In some cases, however, I've added notes. The audio of the video, perhaps, is not great but at least the words of Lahav are great!

Thus, it has been to develop a new current of philosophical practice in which I was very active, but I'm sure that was not the only one. This stream was based on the idea that philosophy can not solve problems, in contrast, are the problems that can lead to life. It does not solve difficult situations, if anything, at times, difficult situations poses. According to the second view, the practice of philosophy, one should develop our self-understanding, be more aware of the key issues that we face in life. The point is that in everyday life we \u200b\u200bare all the time asking fundamental philosophical questions, not only in our thinking but also in our choices, our emotions, our hopes and desires.

Let me give a simple example: imagine that my best friend is dating a new girl, who has a new girlfriend, and spend three weeks before telling me that he has a new girlfriend and when I know I feel very offended. My best friend did not tell me anything about his new girlfriend? You could say that this is an emotion, right? I feel offended. But my feeling, my emotions, I really say something about what is friendship. My feeling says friendship means sharing personal information. So, although in theory and in thought, I never asked the question about what friendship is, in fact my emotion expressed a certain conception of friendship.
Our emotions, our behavior, our choices ... all the time, interpret the world are responding to deep philosophical questions, although we are not conscious.

last semester in Israel, my stidente an exercise in philosophical counseling, told me that the greatest moment of his life, which always thinks and always want that to happen Again, when it was in a football game, and won the Israeli national was ecstatic for him.
Now, if we go a bit 'deeper: the fact that this experience was for him

so beautiful, so much so that continues to think and hope that it is a real repeat his declaration of what is important in life. It 'a declaration of what is ecstasy: get out of their private and daily occupations. It 's very very precious, is what matters in life. It 'an answer to the question "What is important in life?", "What qualities are important to them?". It 'clear that what is not that simple.

must talk with the person and see what exactly is going on but now I'm doing very short examples so that when we go home after this conference and maybe do one thing or another, like standing in front of the television and see a movie or pick up the phone and call the girl or the boy or his wife or decide: Why not go to the beach tomorrow to relax, to have a day of relaxation?

So then, in agreement with this view, at this time we are asking fundamental philosophical questions. We are constantly making statements about what is important in life, what is friendship, what love is, what it means to be free, what is ethical and what is not ethical, not in theory but in thought and behavior that many times we are not aware.

Allegory of the Cave Plato is a wonderful allegory. We all live in a cave in a cave in part personal, part of a culture. These are limitations, certain patterns of thought, feeling, preferences.
According to Plato the aim of philosophy is not to make life more comfortable in the cave, as required by the first vision of philosophical counseling (Ran Lahav, here refers to the conception of philosophical practice nursing as a profession and therefore attributable to the treatment paradigm, ed.)
sigur that I have studied all this allegory. The goal of philosophy is not fix these shadows and make them more comfortable for our lives, not to solve problems in the cave but neither is the second window (of philosophical counseling) that is: to understand my cave.
In the second vision of how carefully I place my cave, statements, conceptions of behavior.

The aim of philosophy, and this is the third view (the practice of philosophy, ed), you get out of the cave, have a greater life of this cave. Transcend what they are, go far beyond what they are.

This is an incredible view, is not it? It may not be practical, it is so high but I think this is the goal that the practice should be philosophical.

I believe that the practice of philosophy, according to this third view, seeks to rise, to bring a little 'out of the cave, you can liddove. This is what is called wisdom or some people even use the word "Building". This is what I'm investigating now, this is what is important to me now. The terza visione include la seconda visione.

Devo capire la mia caverna per poter uscire da essa. Però (la terza visione, ndr.) va oltre la caverna e consiste nell' accorgersi di una cosa: che l'obiettivo è vivere una vita più grande. Se il mio obiettivo è uscire dai miei limiti, dalla mia caverna, allora la Pratica filosofica non è una professione, non è qualcosa in cambio di cui ricevo del denaro. E' un modo di vita, un modo di essere.

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philosophical counseling in Israel

La Consulenza filosofica è approdata in Israele nel 1989 con la fondazione del Center Sophon , diretto da Shlomit Schuster that, after meeting Ad Hoogendijk in the Netherlands, decided to undertake the consultancy activities in his country. Sophon
The center, among other activities, also offers a free telephone service first-aid to existential problems and ethical dilemmas. In addition to Schuster, also Avshalom Adam, Lydia Amir, now Gruengard, Louis N. Sandowsky, Adva Shaviv, Israel and others have opened Shorek studies of philosophical counseling in Israel.
The conception of philosophical counseling Shlomit Schuster can be identified as " achenbachiana " Moreover, the very fact that Israel loves to call the consultant sua attività come Pratica filosofica [Philosophy practice] sta a indicare la sua intenzione di porsi in un rapporto di fedele continuità rispetto alla tedesca Philosophische Praxis .
Essa stessa comunque non rinuncia in assoluto ad utilizzare il più circoscritto termine “ counseling ”, in quanto, come ricorda, “ha la sua origine etimologica nel significato letterale, neutro, di ‘dare consigli’”.
Schuster riprende da Achenbach, ampliandola, anche la critica ai trattamenti psicologici e psicoterapeutici, soprattutto in riferimento alla loro potente influenza sulla società e sulle modalità d’intendere il concetto di malattia nei singoli individui.
She herself relates how, in some cases his advice, had to start from a preliminary work of " depsicoanalisi " and " dediagnosi ": it may happen that certain consultants think themselves exclusively under fixed medical-diagnostic categories (for example, may believe that they suffer from certain "complex", to be suffering from "performance anxiety" rather than manic-depressive). The work carried out by Schuster dediagnosi is nothing but a work of critical scaling of what the consultant considers as its psychological reality.
And so, for example, strip the myth of Oedipus by his Freudian interpretation to show that, in the end is, that is "simply a myth," can lead to a beneficial "liberating effect" on those who have always interpreted to his relationship with his father according to the psychoanalytic view.
Another very prominent figure at international level between the Israeli advisers is surely that of Ran Lahav, whose consulting business began in 1992.
One of the major factors that characterize Lahav, as well-known scholar of philosophical practices Miccione David, are the 'balance and coherence of thought.
addition, Lahav is the fact that a degree in psychology and philosophy makes its critical reflection on the comparison between philosophical approach to counseling and psychological approach is particularly thorough and worthy of consideration. For
Lahav, one of the central elements of philosophical counseling is the principle of 'interpretation of the vision of the world the consultant: that view is to be understood as something that is in the mind of the person or which directly influences the actual events. It rather is an abstract schema that interprets the structure and the philosophical implications of the concept that an individual has of himself and of reality. " According
Lahav, all people "constantly interpret their world, not simply through the beliefs and thoughts, but through their 'whole way of being', through their express' a certain understanding of the nature of the self, of what is important, moral, beautiful, of what are love, friendship, courage, and so on. " In his later writings and articles, Lahav stresses the need to make a critical reassessment of the practice of philosophical counseling . If, in fact, the advice is to be philosophical not only in name but also actually be able to waive any accommodative role: instead of "adapt to market demand," that is to provide answers and ad hoc solutions to the problems of the people, should do almost the exact opposite. Or "raise the intellectual and existential dissatisfaction [...]. Evoke fear and confusion [...] encourage an approach to the infinite complexity and richness of life. " According to Lahav, philosophy should serve as a critical conscience of society, and certainly not from "yet another cog in the social, for that matter, if so, the philosophical, as a" supplier of goods, would not be very unlike the therapist or from any "entertainer that aims to satisfy the desire for fun, or as the drug dealer who sells pills 'anxiolytic' to make people feel better, or the plastic surgeon who changes the noses of people to meet a certain narcissism, or the furniture that sells pieces of furniture to meet the needs of comfort. " For the turn of the Lahav
philosophical counseling might be in the direction of a Platonic conception, namely towards a contemplative philosophy ":" the practice of philosophy, the philosopher, is connected to our whole being. It awakens in us the desire to go further, towards a deeper level of our everyday things. Towards some kind of transformation that will open to a larger world outside the cave or, if you prefer, in the light. " Another Israeli
consultant, well known internationally, is now Gruengard . For
Gruengard philosophical counseling fulfilled its role when it presents itself as critical philosophy. The consultant is therefore to be understood as a philosopher, critic and anti-dogmatic able "to leave room for doubt, or even all'inspiegabile, all'indeterminato, all'impredicabile. But this is possible only by discarding the pretense of knowledge and the dose of certainty guaranteed by the exact knowledge to make way for the acceptance of their fallibility. In questo senso, il consulente filosofico eredita da Socrate non solo la coscienza di non sapere ma anche l’accettazione di questo non sapere. Come la stessa Gruengard ha ricordato nel suo intervento alla Sesta Conferenza Internazionale sulle Pratiche Filosofiche tenutasi ad Oslo nel luglio 2001: “Socrate era un ignorante come tanti altri, ma l’unico che pensasse di essere tale. Noi dovremmo prendere seriamente il suo coraggio di tollerare l’ignoranza. Non che egli non sperasse di imbattersi in qualche solida verità, ma impiegò piuttosto la sua vita in una lotta critica contro false credenze ed ingiustificati diritti nei confronti del sapere. Ciò dovrebbe illuminare ogni counseling filosofico che si riconosce come effettivamente critical. Thus, the same philosophical counselor 'critical' should perhaps adopt a more appropriate term, and certainly more modest, to show himself and his activities. " In short, if you were to find a motto for the philosophical critic, this motto would be: "is not necessarily so", that does not mean that A is always different from B or that what is believed to be the truth, it is in all respects.


From "philosophical counseling: history and patterns," Maria Devigili, Trento, 2007

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The theme: The disturbing charm of the Sacred

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