Philoconsultation: introspection through mediation

THE frame

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What if succeeding was getting to know each other? Broaden the spectrum of your strengths, also see yourself through your own weaknesses, correct them and thus gain more self-confidence.

More than a method, the Philoconsultation is a time of exchange dedicated to one person with the objective of solving a problem. Like the etymology of the Greek term Pyroβλημα As (próvlima) indicates, the problem is what is thrown in front of you as an obstacle without being warned. This lack of control leads to an imbalance in the subject's life, which can destroy him in order to lead him to search for a solution.

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La Philoconsultation is a tailor-made support that aims at the well-being of the person being accompanied while providingorder And of senses in his physical, mental and emotional state. Directing your thoughts, eliminating anxiety in the face of the unknown and having self-control is a posture that is acquired over the course of the sessions in order to achieve a solid understanding of yourself.

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The shape

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“Know yourself.” A famous inscription engraved on the pediment of the Temple of Delphi, this formula raises the importance of the'introspection in the search for the truth. It implies that nothing can be known if you do not first know yourself. In addition, guiding your interior and living well implies that you can know yourself.

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But seeing and examining yourself from within presupposes that the subject becomes your own object of research. This is problematic because, in the absence of distance between the subject and the object, self-knowledge is not possible.

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Therefore, if theintrospection has a meaning in order to find a truth (self-knowledge), it must be guided from outside by someone other than yourself. The introduction of a third element establishes the missed distance and restores the process. This role is held by the consultant philosopher.

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Following the example of maieutics (μαiens Maieutik) of Socrates, the principle of Philoconsultation is to make the person give birth to their own ideas, truths and anxieties, but also and especially to their own desires.

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The background

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The background of the Philoconsultation stages a state of profound understanding of oneself to oneself through the eyes of the consulting philosopher. This technique consists in interviewing the person well in order to get them to express (To give birth) knowledge about herself that she has buried in the image of hidden knowledge.

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When Plato stages maieutics for the first time in his dialogue The Banquet, He affirms, through his master Socrates, that the soul of every man is pregnant and that it wants to give birth to its truth. This birth can only take place in the Beauty that the aesthetics of human existence convey. It is the role of the philosopher to make souls give birth in Beauty so that they can experience the rationality and coherence of their alleged knowledge and so that they can judge for themselves whether their condition is viable or if it contains contradictions.