I’m loving what Hadot has to say about Socrates. #socrates #existential #therapy

Back online after 17th September. I'm going in search of an old fashioned agora experience so I can have conversations about how life should be lived. I will let you know of any new provisional knowings..... Stay safe and look after each other! #existential

Whilst most people think about the way Plato gave us Socrates, I wonder about how Socrates gave us Plato? #socrates #existential #therapy

This photograph taken on my trip to Athens last year. Apparently there is some debate whether this is the actual prison? #socrates #existential #therapy

I’m listening yet again to @donjrobertson.bsky.social narrate his book “How to think like Socrates”. I think it’s the most compelling argument I’ve heard as to WHY we should think like Socrates. #existential #socrates

Let's examine life and the living of it together? Let's try to move away from falsity and towards truth? Let's value being persuaded as well as being able to persuade? Let's have the courage to be vulnerable enough to let something go and/or to let something new emerge? #existential #therapy

Aporia, another word from Ancient Greece, to mean a state of puzzlement, most likely the identification of a paradox. In therapy, a moment preceding knowing what is unknown. #existential #therapy #dialectic

Ataraxia, a state of serene calmness. A sign of the presence of eudaimonia - a life of flourishing. Ancient words, for use today! #existential #therapy

Eudaimonia anyone? Flourishing or living well. It's more than just happiness; it's about a life lived in accordance with virtue, wisdom, and one's true nature. A state of well-being that is not fleeting or dependent on external factors, but rather a deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose.

For Socrates it appears that asking the question "How should life be lived?" was the answer to how his life should be lived? What's yours? #existential #philosophy #psychotherapy