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This collection provides a panoramic view of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes. These essays cast light on our perennially imperfect human condition. The collection ranges from Alfred Korzybski's general semantics; Thomas Mann's prognosis for Western civilization; Hume's moral skepticism applied to globalization; Jungian synchronicity and encounters with Irvin Yalom; J.S. Mill's harm principle applied to cyberspace; Ayn Rand's prophetic apocalypse; philosophical practice as Dadaist activism; humanities-based therapies as remedies for culturally induced illnesses; biological roots of human conflict; deconstruction and critique of "sustainable development"; dangers and detriments of over-digitalized and hyper-virtualized lifestyles and learning methods; and calls for the re-emergence of philosophy from inactive academic entombment to pro-active modes of personal guidance, social influence, consumer advocacy, and political engagement.
A unifying claim of this anthology is the cautionary tale that humanity's recurrent and conflict-ridden predicaments are only exacerbated by myopic analyses, toxic ideologies, and expedient prescriptions. While philosophy is scarcely a panacea for human afflictions, its proper exercise illuminates our understanding of them, thereby suggesting better as opposed to worse ways forward.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Case Studies, 1995-2000; Essay #1. On the Emergence of Ethical Counseling; Essay #2. What Philosophical Counseling Can't Do; Essay #3. On Virtual Liberty: Offense, Harm and Censorship in Cyberspace; Essay #4. Employment Equity versus Equal Opportunity; Global Essays, 2001-2008; Essay #5. General Semantics and Philosophical Practice: Korzybski's Contributions to the Global Village; Essay #6. Thus Spake Settembrini: a Meta-Dialogue on Philosophy and Psychiatry; Essay #7. The Matrix and Plato's Cave: Why the Sequels Failed; Essay #8. Ethics, Globalization and Hunger: An Ethicist's Perspective; Maieutic Essays, 2009-2015; Essay #9. Synchronicity, Serpents, and 'Something-Elseness'; Essay #10. Humanities Therapy: Restoring Well-Being in an Age of Culturally Induced Illness; Essay #11. Biological Roots of Human Conflict, and its Resolution via Cultural Evolution; Essay #12. A Skeptical View of Sustainability; Humanistic Essays, 2016-2019; Essay #13. Atlas Shrugged, Akston Counseled: How Ayn Rand Reinvented Philosophical Practice; Essay #14. Dada as Philosophical Practice, and Vice Versa: Reflections on the Centenary of the Cabaret Voltaire; Essay #15. Doing Good and Living Well: Awakening the Inner Philosopher; Essay #16. Humanities Therapy as a Remedy for the Detriments of Technosociety; Bibliography; List of Tables and Figures; Index
