The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum
10 Pages
Posted: 6 Aug 2001
Last revised: 8 Jun 2008
University of Denver - Political Science
Landmark Worldwide LLC; Vanto Group
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Sociology
Graland Country Day School
Abstract
Philosophy promises more than contents of thought. It can cultivate openness to continuously arising new contents of thought. Unconsciously identifying with the contents of thought displaces this openness; the remedy for such unnoticed closed mindedness is self-knowledge. In the Socratic tradition the Landmark Forum - a forty-hour course sponsored by the employee owned Landmark Educational Corporation - provides a model of philosophy as the practical art of uncovering and expanding self-knowledge and thereby generating unforeseen ways of being in everyday life.
Keywords: Applied philosophy, transformation, well being, Socratic Dialogue
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
McCarl, Steven R. and Zaffron, Steve and Nielsen, Joyce McCarl and Kennedy, Sally Lewis, The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum. Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 & 2, Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr 2001; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 01-01. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=278955 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.278955
