2004-06-27 IAGP 1st World Olympic Congress of Philosophy Presentation - Philosophical Midwifery as Philosophical Practice and the Struggle for Excellence in Homer
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This is a paper Dr Grimes first presented at The First World Olympic Congress of Philosophy in Athens-Spetses, from June 27th to July 4th, 2004., hosted by the International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP), at the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses. In it, he analyzes the growth of Achilles in Homer's Iliad from the perspective of Dr. Grimes’ own philosophical midwifery.
This conference paper was later distilled into the (shorter) March 2005 APPA Journal article, Contrasting Excellence in Homer with Philosophical Midwifery.
Pierre is the inventor of philosophical midwifery in its modern sense, and has been practicing it since his days with Alan Watts in the 1950's. His book, Philosophical Midwifery: A New Paradigm for Understanding Human Problems, with Regina Uliana PhD, was published in 1998 (ISBN-10 softcover: 0-9648191-1-2; hardcover 0-9648191-2-0) and is available from Hyparxis Press.
Abstract
The discovery of a rational way for effectively resolving problems encountered in the quest for personal excellence has far reaching implications for philosophy and culture. As a new paradigm for understanding human problems, philosophical practice using philosophical midwifery constitutes a major shift of emphasis that returns reason and the arena of mind to the center of our concerns. Philosophical midwifery, an extension of Socratic midwifery, is non-interpretive dialogical exploration for overcoming the blocks in the struggle to achieve excellence. The method of Philosophical Midwifery (PM) surfaces unsuspected false beliefs, discovers what factors made them believable, accounts for what maintains them and, in recognizing the way they function, brings about their dissolution. Following the methods of PM, this paper describes Achilles’ problem in terms of the present situation that manifested the problem, the pathologos (sick belief) state of mind, the transmission scene, dealing with the consequences of the pathologos problem, and reconciliation with oneself (in this case, the funeral games and Priam).
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