The Relationship Between Philosophy and Self-Help

Iris Modok: I began with a certain kind of skepticism that it wasn't clear why the skills developed by philosophical training would make you any wiser or better able to guide people in living their lives. In writing midlife, I think I didn't really grapple with this very much and just thought, well, it's turned out that some of what I was thinking about philosophically has helped me. That's good. Maybe I'll share it with other people. Iris Modok: A lot of say philosophical work, even in political philosophy, takes the form partly of argument and theory construction, but partly of providing new descriptions that enable us to see things in new ways. So often conceptual