Listen and Learn.
The best shrinks, much to the chagrin of their patients, are the ones who do not advise but listen. They are those who provide, I think, a forum for consciousnesses connecting; they are not there to tell a person how to live their life, but to give the individual verification. "You think therefore you are"
So, too, I think, is the role of the philosopher. Open any critical theory book--the point of research is not to assert but to suggest; not to demand but to postulate.
What's different about philosophers and psychologists is that the former are prone to rant, to insist and assert without listening.
So, too, I think, is the role of the philosopher. Open any critical theory book--the point of research is not to assert but to suggest; not to demand but to postulate.
What's different about philosophers and psychologists is that the former are prone to rant, to insist and assert without listening.
1 Comments:
Catherine Catherine,
the first part of this reminds me so much of something I read of Benjamin (probably in the first volume of his selected writings put out by Harvard). The way adults berate our enthusiasm for life because of their "experience." If you haven't read it, you must!
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