What is philosophical Counselling?
Philosophical counselling is a form of personal counsel. The purpose of philosophical counselling is simply to dialogue philosophically about issues that are meaningful to the client, or interlocutor. It is a form of dialogue that attempts to put everyday problems into a philosophical framework. Socrates, in ancient Greece, hoped that his philosophical interlocutors, those with whom he conversed, would in some respect improve, either their character or their situation in life, through philosophical discussion. Similarly, the philosophical counsellor attempts to facilitate clarity for the interlocutor by addressing problems that are amenable to philosophical reflection. The term “philosophy” has its roots in two Greek words philo and Sophia, meaning “love” and “wisdom” respectively. The philosopher is someone who has a love of wisdom. The philosopher uses many tools in his attempts to discover wisdom, and such tools are readily applicable to problems that face us all in our everyday aff
