Filozofia jako wezwanie do pięknego życia
Philosophy – Call for a Beautifull Life

Philosophical Therapy and Beauty

Summary/Abstract: Presented article originates from a deep anxiety about possibility, strategy and purposeof a philosophical thinking, such activity and practice directly expressed bythe Greek verb askeo, as well as from strongly held belief that the most considerablephilosophical problem, like also the source of the most philosophers troubling heaviesttorment is – in fact – philosophy by itself – especially in the aspect of its absence,paradoxically stuck together with philosophizing deeply noticed need. Startingpoint is A. Berleant’ diagnosis of a state of separation among three Kantian “kingdoms”:kingdom of knowledge, kingdom of ethics and the one of judgement, thatimmobilizes philosophising in its aim to makes the man a perfect human being.An essential inspiration to cope with the problem brought us an American neopragmatistphilosopher and (soma-)aesthetic R. Shusterman’s book Practicing Philosophy.Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life. Our inquiry starts with a set ofdirectly posed and powerful questions about philosophizing, its aim and its derivableadvantages. That is: What does it mean to live “philosophically”? Why is it worthyto care for a “philosophical” life (what most philosophers, beginning from Plato,strongly admit)? How to achieve life like this? And finally – whether it is a reasonableeffort to strive for ones engagement into the sphere of philosophy? Premise of a proposedanswer may be found in a conscientiously reed out Plato. The key is to recognizethat Greek he philosophia should back be understood simply as a philosophikosbios, combined with its holistic strategy (the art of living).

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