Philosophical Counselling as a Secular Approach to the Problem of Evil
Philosophical Counselling as a Secular Approach to the Problem of Evil

Author(s): Florina Haret
Subject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Philosophical counselling; problem of evil; bibliotherapy; Pierre-Henri Castel; scale of evil; dispositional account; adverbial analysis; philosophy in prisons.
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to outline the way in which bibliotherapy could be used during philosophical counselling sessions in order to address the problem of evil from a secular point of view. It touches upon some of the most important features of philosophical counselling, drawing a brief parallel with psychiatry and psychology, respectively, as well as referring to the therapeutic and pedagogical dimensions of philosophical counselling. The book chosen for bibliotherapy is Pierre-Henri Castel’s “Pervers, a Conceptual Analysis, suivi de Sade à Rome” [Pervers, a Conceptual Analysis, Followed by Sade in Rome].

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