The Partially Examined Life: A Conversation with Wes Alwan
New Books in Critical Theory
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Psychoanalysis
I think of it as like a ultimately an extension of virtue ethics. So I see psychoanalysis is more in the tradition, you know, more in the Socratic tradition somewhat or maybe Epicurean because really what happens with the virtue ethics is it becomes more focused on the therapeutic. Even with Aristotle, right? You're already moving in the direction of a therapeutic focus, a focus on virtue, habit, character. It can't easily be changed through just reasoning through just thinking, although that's not to say that reasoning can have an effect. But so, and stoicism itself, of course, is a therapeutic,. is a therapeutic practice.
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