Philosophical Health

A Practical Introduction

Luis de Miranda

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781350405035
• eBook ISBN: 9781350405059
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Health Care Delivery

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, NGO's and corporations – offers a pragmatic open system that is supported with 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. This book 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue: Introducing philosophical health
• 1 The bodily sense
• 2 The sense of self
• 3 The sense of belonging
• 4 The sense of the possible
• 5 The sense of purpose
• 6 The philosophical sense
• Epilogue: Five principles of philosophical practice
• Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint