The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum
10 Pages Posted: 6 Aug 2001 Last revised: 8 Jun 2008
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
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