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Philosophical consultation

What is it ?

Philosophical consultation is a demanding exercise because it requires both rigor and authenticity, but the results are often surprising and enlightening because the process reveals how you think and relate to others. We could also call it existential consultation.

This rigorous exercise consists of:

  • identify, through your speech, the implicit presuppositions which form your vision of the world. This will define the starting point of further deepening.

  • think the other side of these presuppositions, in order to transform indisputable postulates into mere working hypotheses.

  • articulate the generated issues through identified and formulated concepts in order to identify what other existential options you face.

Concretely, you bring a question or a problem, whatever it is, and you leave with one or more answers and generally some revelations about yourself along the way. No prior philosophical knowledge is required. If you don't have any questions, come as you are and we will formulate your "problem" together.

 

For example, the questions we have already had to deal with were:

  • "should I go back to school?"

  • "What is the meaning of my life ?

  • "Why do I always wait until the last moment to do things?"

  • "why does my company not recognize my value?"

  • "Why am I ashamed of being privileged over others?"

  • "Do I have to do everything to satisfy my customers?"

  • "How do I review my friends?"

  • "How can I express my feelings better?"

How ?

The exercise lasts an hour and a half and can be done:

Are you interested but reluctant to take the plunge?

I offer you a first free informal meeting (remotely by Zoom) where you will talk to me about what you want and where I will explain my approach to you.

pourquoi?

Why have a consultation?
The nature of my problem.

You may want to have a consultation because you want to explore a question in more depth without knowing how to go about it, to find out what philosophers would have answered in your place, to have someone who helps you develop your arguments, who pushes you to question them by making objections, who suggests ways to unblock the knots in your thinking. You will find a demanding interlocutor in the person of the practitioner, who considers that you are autonomous in developing your own thinking and finding the answers to your questions.

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