קייט מיהורן - יועצת פילוסופית: אפיקטטוס וניטשה בייעוץ הפילוסופי
איון עם קייט מיהורן, יועצת פילוסופית ופרופסור לפילוסופיה ממישיגן שבארה"ב, על אפיקטטוס וניטשה בייעוץ הפילוסופי. מאי , 2014.
What do all philosophical practices have in common?
SPANISH Philosophy in its early days, when written texts were not accessible to most people, used di...
DEEP PHILOSOPHY versus PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE
People sometimes ask me: Is Deep Philosophy a kind of philosophical practice? My answer is: No. Both...
HARMONY IN VINCI
Last summer I decided to spend my holidays in Tuscany, Italy, with my old friend Janet. We both had ...
RETREAT OF DEEP PHILOSOPHY (ITALY, 3.2020)
All are invited to a quiet retreat of Deep Philosophy, to cultivate our inner depth and our depth-un...
4. IDEAS VERSUS THEORIES
In our search for realness, in Deep Philosophy we explore fundamental issues of life and reality. We...
The Moment I Understood Solovyov
The Moment I Understood Solovyov I knew your husband would die sooner than later, being a hopeless s...
Introducing philosophy into politics
Since we began our weekly philosophical cafés in 1998, most of our participants have been political ...
STAY WITH ME - LEVINAS
I stand in the kitchen, a song playing in the background, while I cook some delicious vegetables and...
Montaigne’s Chains
A few days ago I got a phone call from an editor of a prestigious magazine. “Hey Alma, I’ve got a ne...
CAROLINE’S BEAUTY ACCORDING TO PLATO
My sister died after suffering for several months from breast cancer, and her daughter Christine hea...
A NEW MAP OF PHILOSOPHY
For more than two years, AGORA has been presenting a short philosophical text every week. We now hav...
6. RESONATING
In Deep Philosophy, we sometimes speak about connecting to our “Inner Depth,” while at other times w...
PHILOSOPHY AND DEEP PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy is a rich movement through history, and who can squeeze its many shapes into one simple d...
1. PILLARS OF DEEP PHILOSOPHY
The Pillars of Deep Philosophy are the essential ideas on which Deep Philosophy is based. Essential ...
AGORA’S NEW SISTER-WEBSITE, AND INVITATION TO ONLINE SESSIONS
Dear Friends of Agora, We are excited to announce a new website: Deep Philosophy ( http://DPhil...
The light that loved to illuminate
It happened a few months ago while I was on one of my business trips and had to kill time at the air...
INDIAN PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTITIONERS' ASSOCIATION
ALL INDIA PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTITIONERS’ ASSOCIATION (AIPPA) A network of philosophical practitioners ...
MEXICO ICCP 2018: THE BOUNDARIES OF PHILOSOPHY
I have just returned home from Mexico City, from the 15th International Conference of Philosophical ...
3. SELF-TRANSFORMATION
We practice Deep Philosophy because we want to get in touch with the depth during the session. But i...
The Hunter’s Reverence for Life
Being locked down at home during the Covid-19 epidemic, I had a lot of time to clean forgotten corne...
PHILOSOPHY AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION
Throughout the history of Western philosophy, we find important philosophers who believed that philo...
PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION ONLINE
INVITATION: PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION ONLINE You are invited to participate in the online contempl...
THEAITETOS AND THE CORINTHIAN EPIDEMIC
SPANISH THEAITETOS AND THE CORINTHIAN EPIDEMICBEING AFRAID OF DYING IN A FARAWAY LAND The other day ...
New Book: GO WITHIN
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: DON'T GO ABROAD, GO WITHIN: VITRIOLUM.” J...
Being Delusional
By Maurizio Bisogno What does being delusional really mean? “Totally delusional.” Why would you say ...
2. PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION
In Deep Philosophy we contemplate. What is contemplation? Contemplation is a practice in which we di...
Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019)
Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019) La Deep Philosophy è un approccio contemplativo alla filosofia. In ...
My Jacket, Coronavirus, Marcus Aurelius
I remember well the last time I strolled along the streets of New York, glancing casually at the sto...
THE FACE OF COMPASSION – UNAMUNO
My sister died after suffering for several months from breast cancer, and her daughter Christine hea...
The Poisoned Arrow: Why the answer is not always the solution
The Poisoned Arrow: Why the answer is not always the solution "Do we always have to know the cause of a problem in order to solve it?" I recently put this question to a client, who for more than a yea...
Stay Curious, Remain Humble and Think in Three-Dimensions - A Confucian Approach to Philosophical Counseling
How can perspectives from Asian philosophy be integrated into philosophical practice? In this and subsequent blog posts I will explore this issue alongside more general reflections on philosophical co...
Philosophical voices of the human ocean
If we want to do deep philosophy, we must remember the philosophical voices of the past. The writings of deep philosophers throughout history are humanity’s attempt to address basic life-issues, which...
THE MUSIC OF REALITY AND OF IDEAS
In philosophical contemplation, we don’t try to reach a conclusion. We contemplate an idea or a text, and we don’t wait for a bottom line, we don’t expect a product – a final decision, an answer, a th...
4. IDEAS VERSUS THEORIES
In our search for realness, in Deep Philosophy we explore fundamental issues of life and reality. We work, in other words, with philosophical ideas. But philosophy, so it seems, is abstract and remote...
6. RESONATING
In Deep Philosophy, we sometimes speak about connecting to our “Inner Depth,” while at other times we speak of listening to “voices” of reality. These two concepts, Inner Depth and Voices, use differe...
How Philosophy is Changing my Life
Philosophy has changed my life because for me, philosophy is not just abstract ideas. Abstract ideas can make me think abstract thoughts, but not much more. Philosophy can change life because philosop...
CONTEMPLATION - Letting the depth speak through us
What does “contemplative philosophy” mean? How can philosophy be contemplative? Philosophy is a search for the fundamental principles of life and the world, the deepest truths, the ground, the essence...
Book of Creation (2017)
Book of Creation (2017) A novel (fantasy) by Michael Winstrom and Ran Lahav Waves of accidents and disasters of all kinds suddenly plague our world. Only the ancient society of Keepers understands tha...
Saliendo de la Caverna de Platón
SALIENDO DE LA CAVERNA DE PLATÓN La famosa Alegoría de la Caverna de Platón nos enseña que la filosofía puede transformar nuestra vida y elevarla. Puede ayudarnos a comprender la estrecha “caverna” en...
Handbook of Philosophical Companionship (2016)
Handbook of Philosophical Companionship (2016) A philosophical companionship is a group of people who meet online or face-to-face and contemplate in togetherness on philosophical ideas. They resonate ...
Philosophical Contemplation (2018)
PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION Philosophical contemplation means reflecting on fundamental life-issues from our inner depth. It takes us beyond our ordinary thought-patterns to new realms of understandin...
MIRANDA AND HER PHILOSOPHICAL TRIO (Chapter 6)
THE “LANGUAGE” OF MY YEARNING In the days that follow the Philosophical Trio meeting [see previous chapter], Miranda is full of thoughts. The Trio had identified several concepts in Miranda’s way of t...
Contemplazione Filosofica (2018)
Contemplazione Filosofica (2018) La contemplazione filosofica riflette sui temi fondamentali dell’esistenza a partire dalla profondità interiore. Contemplare filosoficamente porta al di là degli schem...
2. PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEMPLATION
In Deep Philosophy we contemplate. What is contemplation? Contemplation is a practice in which we direct our mind to think and understand from a deeper dimension of our being. What distinguishes it fr...
DEEP PHILOSOPHY versus PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE
People sometimes ask me: Is Deep Philosophy a kind of philosophical practice? My answer is: No. Both of them have a similar starting point, but from there they go in opposite directions. Let me start ...
A NEW MAP OF PHILOSOPHY
For more than two years, AGORA has been presenting a short philosophical text every week. We now have almost 100 texts in Agora’s section “Philosophers about Life” and “Philosophical Topics.” For some...
Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019)
Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019) La Deep Philosophy è un approccio contemplativo alla filosofia. In essa, i praticanti riflettono sui temi fondamentali della vita dalla propria profondità interiore e ...
ON DEEP THINKING
ON DEEP THINKING (Miranda and her Philosophical Trio) “Yesterday,” Miranda tells Linda, “I had a strange experience reading the philosophical text you gave us. A marvelous experience. I’m not s...
PHILOSOPHY AND SELF-TRANSFORMATION
Throughout the history of Western philosophy, we find important philosophers who believed that philosophy can transform our lives. An obvious example is Plato, who writes that philosophy can take us o...
3. SELF-TRANSFORMATION
We practice Deep Philosophy because we want to get in touch with the depth during the session. But in addition, we may also have a long-term goal in mind: to transform ourselves and be connected more ...
Miranda and her Philosophical Trio (Chapter 7)
PHILOSOPHY AND THE MANY VOICES OF LIFE Every day, Miranda takes a few minutes to contemplate on a philosophical text. This morning she contemplates on a text by the Swiss thinker Max Picard [See Agora...
Contemplación Filosófica (2018)
Contemplación Filosófica (2018) Contemplación filosófica significa reflexionar sobre temas fundamentales de la vida desde nuestra profundidad interior. La contemplación filosófica nos lleva más...
Being a Wave in the Ocean - Philosophical Contemplation
A philosophical theory cannot touch human reality in the same way that human reality is real for me. Reality is real to me not as a theory. If I want to understand human reality as fully and deeply as...
1. PILLARS OF DEEP PHILOSOPHY
The Pillars of Deep Philosophy are the essential ideas on which Deep Philosophy is based. Essential – because if any of them is missing, the practice is longer Deep Philosophy. You may formulate these...
MEXICO ICCP 2018: THE BOUNDARIES OF PHILOSOPHY
I have just returned home from Mexico City, from the 15th International Conference of Philosophical Practice. The conference was superbly organized by David Sumiacher and Paulina Ramirez, and we all h...
The Deep Philosophy Group (2nd edition)(2019)
The Deep Philosophy Group (2nd edition) The Deep Philosophy Group is an international group of philosophical practitioners who are committed to doing philosophy from their inner depth. They reflect in...
PHILOSOPHY AND DEEP PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy is a rich movement through history, and who can squeeze its many shapes into one simple definition? We may say, for instance, that philosophers investigate fundamental issues of life and re...
Our "Deep Philosophy" Retreat
In February, our “Deep Philosophy” group met for our second philosophical-contemplative retreat. The retreat took place in the tiny village of Brando near Torino, Italy, in a large house that belongs ...
RECENT BOOKS
What is Deep Philosophy? (2021)
What is Deep Philosophy? (2021) Deep Philosophy means contemplating from our inner depth on basic life-issues, in togetherness with our companions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Deep ...
Contemplazione Filosofica (2018)
Contemplazione Filosofica (2018) La contemplazione filosofica riflette sui temi fondamentali dell’esistenza a partire dalla profondità interiore. Contemplare filosoficamente porta al di là degli schem...
Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019)
Il gruppo Deep Philosophy (2019) La Deep Philosophy è un approccio contemplativo alla filosofia. In essa, i praticanti riflettono sui temi fondamentali della vita dalla propria profondità interiore e ...
Contemplación Filosófica (2018)
Contemplación Filosófica (2018) Contemplación filosófica significa reflexionar sobre temas fundamentales de la vida desde nuestra profundidad interior. La contemplación filosófica nos lleva más...
Saliendo de la Caverna de Platón
SALIENDO DE LA CAVERNA DE PLATÓN La famosa Alegoría de la Caverna de Platón nos enseña que la filosofía puede transformar nuestra vida y elevarla. Puede ayudarnos a comprender la estrecha “caverna” en...
The Deep Philosophy Group (2nd edition)(2019)
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Manual de Companionships Filosóficos
Manual de Companionships Filosófico Un "companionship" filosófico comprende un grupo de personas, filósofos y no-filósofos, que se encuentran en línea o cara a cara y reflexionan juntos contemplando i...
Stepping out of Plato's Cave (2016)
Stepping out of Plato's Cave (2016) Philosophical practice is an international movement of philosophers who believe that philosophy can help us live our life more fully and deeply. Ran Lahav, a major ...
Book of Creation (2017)
Book of Creation (2017) A novel (fantasy) by Michael Winstrom and Ran Lahav Waves of accidents and disasters of all kinds suddenly plague our world. Only the ancient society of Keepers understands tha...
Handbuch für Philosophische Kameradschaften
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Der Schritt aus Platons Höhle
Der Schritt aus Platons Höhle Platons berühmtes Höllengleichnis lehrt uns, dass die Philosophie unser Leben umwandeln und erheben kann. Sie kann uns helfen die enge „Hölle“ zu verstehen, in der wir ge...
Cheol-hak Chin-gyo
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Manuale della Compagnia Filosofica (2016)
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Uscire dalla Caverna di Platone (2016)
Uscire dalla Caverna di Platone Il famoso mito della caverna di Platone ci insegna che la filosofia può trasformare la nostra vita ed elevarla. Può aiutarci a renderci conto della angusta “caverna” in...
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The synecdoche, Me – a philosophical dream
The synecdoche, Me – a philosophical dream In this short article I will show you how, starting from a dream, we will reach a philosophical understanding, although partial. The Dream: a man, perhaps en...
Weaknesses and Awakening
Your vices are the leading line to your healing. "Why nobody confesses his defects? Because they are still fully immersed in them." In what age do you believe they have written this sentence? We will ...
Being Delusional
By Maurizio Bisogno What does being delusional really mean? “Totally delusional.” Why would you say that? I don't believe I can do what I falsely believe I can do. Usually we understand delusion on it...
New Book: GO WITHIN
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book: DON'T GO ABROAD, GO WITHIN: VITRIOLUM.” Just a new book? This book stems from not knowing. It springs from being tired of my job, from the ne...
The chemical alteration of the brain.
[Maurizio Bisogno - introduction, second revision, 0817] Why do most humans use substances that alter their state of the mind? Why do humans have this need to get intoxicated? Is it due to human natur...
La filosofia fa ancora paura?
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INDIAN PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTITIONERS' ASSOCIATION
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Plato and Pericles: How can philosophy change our lives?
Español. How can philosophy change our life? How strong are the influences of our social habits and personal psychological tendencies and of concrete external limitations and threats? I sit in our apa...
Sophia on her way to Camus
Sophia is sitting again in the kitchen preparing a cup of coffee after work. Today again she talked to her friend Miranda, who is now regularly meeting her two philosophical companions. Sophia feels t...
THEAITETOS AND THE CORINTHIAN EPIDEMIC
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What do all philosophical practices have in common?
SPANISH Philosophy in its early days, when written texts were not accessible to most people, used different techniques to spread its questions and ideas among people. They used rimes, aphorisms and di...
Introducing philosophy into politics
Since we began our weekly philosophical cafés in 1998, most of our participants have been political activists, or at least people interested in the political sphere. As a rule, in each meeting our par...
Sophia returns to philosophy
Sophia is sitting in the kitchen preparing a cup of coffee after work. Today again she talked to her friend Miranda. Usually they just worked and worked together day after day and they seldom talked. ...
Philosophical Practice and social violence
ESPAÑOL What should we do as philosophers when we encounter violence? Should we address the issue or should we avoid it in order to avoid a trivial exchange of opinions? Should we intervene or should ...
PP, time and wage labour
Another year is ending and what have I done during this time? I worked to keep a job and I worked to get a new one. I managed to do both. Unfortunately, although one of my jobs was related to philosop...
Sophia reflects about Camus after a philosophical café
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Dramatic Philosophy
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Contempt, Exclusion and Fear of the Other
The plight of the disposed The woman wanted others to know what it was like to live a life of desperation charred by the contempt of others; a life of deprivation; of fear for oneself, ones family, on...