Logotherapy: Finding Meaning in Life and Overcoming Existential Vacuum
**The Voice Cries Demanding Sense**
A literal translation of the term “speech therapy” is treatment by *logos*. By the way, this represents the true line of the traditional conceptualization of psychotherapy, which could be well formulated as meaning through psychotherapy.
For the physician Paracelsus, diseases originate in the realm of nature, and healing comes to the realm of spirit. Expressed in more technical terms, in the terminology of logotherapy, neurosis is not necessarily noogenic, i.e.,
Read MorePlato and Aristotle: Essential Philosophical Insights
Plato’s Concept of the Idea of Good
Author: The author of the text is Plato, who, along with Aristotle, is one of the most important philosophers of ancient philosophy and a highlight in the history of philosophy. He lived in the 5th-4th centuries BC and spent most of his life in Athens. A disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, he initially intended to engage in politics but abandoned this pursuit after the death of Socrates. Plato developed important theses on the intelligible world, the
Read MoreKant’s Philosophy: Understanding, Phenomena, and Metaphysics
Kant’s Philosophy: Understanding and Synthetic Judgments
Analytical Kant: Understanding and Synthetic Judgments
In his analytical work, Kant addresses two key issues: the nature of understanding and the possibility of synthetic judgments a priori in physics. The first question is addressed through two statements:
- Understanding phenomena involves applying known concepts.
- Pure concepts can only be validly applied to phenomena.
This clarifies Kant’s position relative to empiricism and rationalism:
- Against
Ethical Theories: A Comprehensive Classification
An ethical theory is a philosophical theory that attempts to establish a basis for morality. You can classify ethical theories according to different criteria:
- Ethical Self: Individuals who follow their own rules and values, not subject to anything external.
- Ethical Heteronomous: Individuals who consider their standards and values to be derived from external elements.
- Ethical Materials: Theories that provide moral content, telling us what we must do to act appropriately.
- Formal Ethics: Theories that
José Ortega y Gasset: Philosophy of Life and Historical Context
José Ortega y Gasset: Life as the Ultimate Reality
Life is the ultimate reality. The individual life of any person is going to be the radical data from which we will build philosophy. We feel that we are real, that we live, that with which we interact, but nothing is more immediate and obvious than our life. Life is not only immediate and obvious, such as thinking, but, far from being intentionally or abstract representation, it is an executive interaction, dynamic, concrete, and real with things
Read MoreFrom Myth to Logos: Ancient Greek Philosophers and Their Ideas
From Myth to Logos: The First Concepts
Homer (8th century BC) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Hesiod (8th-7th century BC) is the author of Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Heracles.
Physis (Nature)
The set of all things in the universe (except human productions). Nature is understood as a power (a kind of cosmic energy) that produces and destroys everything that exists.
- Principle: It starts all natural things.
- Source: Things come from it.
- Cause: Nature produces things.
- End: All things