Philosophical Health

What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense.

Luis de Miranda, inspired by nearly a decade of practice as a philosophical counsellor – with individuals, groups, institutions, NGOs, and corporations – offers a pragmatic open system supported by evidence from psychological science, various philosophical traditions, or contemporary theories, as well as fascinating real stories from world wisdom.

Meaning in action is clearly the new way ahead for philosophy, rediscovered here as the responsible and practical big sister – if not queen – of all disciplines and ways of life. The international philosophical health movement is the long-awaited response, globally and locally, to the overall confusion the world fell into due to mindless processes and unexamined behaviour. Philosophical Health shows us how, in a spirit of compossibility and oneness in diversity, we now can, at last, intercreate a harmonious, rich, and diverse planetary civilisation.