I’d like to get beyond the question of whether we have free will. Not yet found a convincing argument either way, pointers please, anyone?

I’m loving what Hadot has to say about Socrates. #socrates #existential #therapy

Control freak? Freak sounds bad - no? If you think you are one then how does it feel when you think you do not have the right relationship with “control” - that actually you are out of control? Time for a rethink?..

Is it irrational to be rational with someone who is being irrational?

If we know we know nothing then we are confronted with knowing something? So wisdom is not a characteristic that can be ascribed to a human? If we cannot be wise then how are we to respond?

Well I met one person convinced that every opportunity should be welcomed and considered and another person who stated that looking after what you already have is where the energy is best spent. Those positions are right for them at that moment but must be held as provisional looking forwards?

Back online after 17th September. I'm going in search of an old fashioned agora experience so I can have conversations about how life should be lived. I will let you know of any new provisional knowings..... Stay safe and look after each other! #existential

I’m not sure I can agree. I can say “what does not kill us, does not kill us”.

Plato's words or that of his teacher Socrates? #existential #socrates #therapy

Loved this. An episode on Socrates please? @nataliehaynes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I wonder if he still thought this at the end of his life?

Words so easily said and would probably be forgotten, if Socrates hadn’t lived and then died by them?

So what does it mean to live? #existential #therapy

I wondering whether "respectful" is something we can know about another or an experience we have in relation to another? #existential #therapy #adhd

Stated with a conviction and certainty that I find unnerving - so maybe he’s onto something? #existential #socrates #therapy

Thank you @wiringthebrain.bsky.social. I think I understood that we can decide to do things differently but we cannot decide that it needs us to decide to do things differently?

"No one ever does wrong willingly/knowingly" I wish Socrates was alive today - I'd really like to talk with him about this.... #socrates #existential #therapy

And to constantly seek to refine and improve our questioning whilst never letting go of the search for the answer of the question - why question? #existential #therapy #socrates

Great question, but framed rhetorically and I wonder what is meant by “easier”. I prefer what do I, you and we live for? #existential #therapy

Sometimes a book comes along....... be ready to be open to be "refuted" www.audible.co.uk/pd/I-May-Be-...

Who decides on what constitutes "important intellectual abilities and dispositions"? Is it possible that a predisposition to study philosophy is more important to cultivation than the study itself? Thank you @apa-journal.bsky.social for publishing.

How refreshingly Socratic to see the concept of "Free Will" being re-examined. Although the suggestion that we now have answers as to "why our biology determines our ideology" and an "explanation" merely takes us away again from being Socratic...... @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

When I think of Socratic Philosophy I imagine this "principle" as a provisional knowing, one open for examination with a view to moving towards truth. The relevance today (as always) being that a "belief" that demands everyone to be a certain way is divisive?

"the true Socratic is convinced of the ignorance not only of himself but of all mankind" discuss?

Looking forward to getting started on this! Thank you @neelburton.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/8PZpw3i #existential #therapy #socrates

“anyone who shows you that you’ve taken the wrong path does you a great favour in saving you from error.” Thank you @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

Currently listening to this, thank you @donjrobertson.bsky.social for the recommendation. amzn.eu/d/2pimDMg #existential #therapy #socrates

I’m not entirely clear on what ego is, although I’m suspecting that once we are clear about the definition we will conclude we need the right amount of it?

Whilst I’m sharing my favourite listening - here’s some more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #socrates #therapy #existential

It's a good question, and as a therapist it brings me to a question which I think needs answering first, what does it means for something to be therapeutic? #therapy #existential #socrates

Whilst most people think about the way Plato gave us Socrates, I wonder about how Socrates gave us Plato? #socrates #existential #therapy

Yesterday I saw someone wearing a Hemlock branded hat and thought of Socrates, or was it my fascination with Socrates that meant I noticed the branding? #socrates #existential #therapy

This photograph taken on my trip to Athens last year. Apparently there is some debate whether this is the actual prison? #socrates #existential #therapy

Another one I keep listening to. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #socrates #existential #therapy

Yes Socrates was a master at refutation, revealing contradictions in his “gadfly” mode but with maieutics “midwife” mode it’s also about bringing something into being. Unlearning, learning, unlearning and learning. A constant process??

"Psychotherapy existed in the ancient world, Socrates said that his method was a therapy for the psyche and it cured double ignorance"... Thank you @donjrobertson.bsky.social, enjoying this recording. #existential #therapy

I must have listened to this a dozen times. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #existential

What does it mean to be certain or uncertain? On what uncertainties does your certainty rest and on what certainties does your uncertainty rest? To be uncertain is to know uncertainty, so how should we respond? #existential

I’m listening yet again to @donjrobertson.bsky.social narrate his book “How to think like Socrates”. I think it’s the most compelling argument I’ve heard as to WHY we should think like Socrates. #existential #socrates

Am I wrong in thinking that if everyone had the chance to take time with another to think about “how should I live my life?” our world would be in a much better state? My experience says it would, please share yours!?! I’m open to being refuted!

Let's examine life and the living of it together? Let's try to move away from falsity and towards truth? Let's value being persuaded as well as being able to persuade? Let's have the courage to be vulnerable enough to let something go and/or to let something new emerge? #existential #therapy

Yes indeed, a bigger question and one in itself great for dialogue? What does it mean to have wisdom? How can we know when we have it? I guess I'm asking how can we talk about something together until we are clear on what the something actually is?

And wisdom is? #existential

Enjoying hearing @agcallard.bsky.social put forward her case for how Socrates gave us the first system of moral philosophy. Am I understanding you correctly @agcallard.bsky.social? www.podbean.com/site/Episode...

"How should life be lived?" This 2,500 year old and possibly first existential question, needs to return to the centre of our focus? A community sharing a belief in the value of "the examined life"?

Stoic but also earlier - Socratic? #existential #socrates

Aporia, another word from Ancient Greece, to mean a state of puzzlement, most likely the identification of a paradox. In therapy, a moment preceding knowing what is unknown. #existential #therapy #dialectic

Ataraxia, a state of serene calmness. A sign of the presence of eudaimonia - a life of flourishing. Ancient words, for use today! #existential #therapy

Find something of value that you can live for. #existential

Eudaimonia anyone? Flourishing or living well. It's more than just happiness; it's about a life lived in accordance with virtue, wisdom, and one's true nature. A state of well-being that is not fleeting or dependent on external factors, but rather a deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose.