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2016-11-01 APPA - The Philosophy of the Self

Synopsis This is Pierre Grimes' second in a series of articles on the subject of philosophy, philosophical counseling, philosophical midwifery, and The Self, published in Philosophical Practice , the journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (of which Pierre was the founder) with permissions of the author and the editor. It is reproduced here under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . Pierre is the inventor of philosophical midwifery in its modern sense, and has been practicing it since his days with Alan Watts in the 1950's. His book, Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems , with Regina Uliana PhD, was published in 1998 (ISBN-10 softcover: 0-9648191-1-2; hardcover 0-9648191-2-0) and is available from Hyparxis Press. Abstract In an age where many people are seeking a more profound way of being, they do not turn to an academic approach to philosophy; rather they turn to Eastern thought and to the emerging school of consciousness from psychology. Perhaps it is time to ask once again, what is philosophy? More Information Pierre Grimes and Philosophical Midwifery The Noetic Society The Pierre Grimes and the Noet

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