Philosophy as therapeia - Carlisle, Clare, 1977-; Ganeri, Jonardon (Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Medical analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic thought: tranquility and anger / Christopher W. Gowans -- Rationality as the therapy of self-liberation in Spinoza's Ethics / Michael Hampe -- Two pedagogies for happiness: healing goals and healing methods in the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas and the Śrī Bhāṣya of Rāmānuja / Martin Ganeri -- The thinker and the draughtsman: Wittgenstein, perspicuous relations, and "working on oneself" / Garry L. Hagberg -- Therapy and theory reconstructed: Plato and his successors / Stephen R. L. Clark -- The teacher as mother or midwife? A comparison of Brahminical and Socratic methods of education / Kate Wharton -- A return to the self: Indians and Greeks on life as art and philosophical therapy / Jonardon Ganeri -- For mortal souls: philosophy and therapies in Nietzsche's Dawn / Keith Ansell Pearson -- The philosopher as pathogenic agent, patient and therapist: the case of William James / Logi Gunnarsson -- Curing diseases of belief and desire: Buddhist philosophical therapy / David Burton -- Patañjali's yoga as therapeia / Jayandra Soni.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245)
Keywords: Philosophy -- Therapeutic use; Interpretation (Philosophy)