A Study on Method of Philosophical Education and Therapy by Philosophical Praxis II : Healing Knowledge as Today's Philosophical Knowledge

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As it is well-known, what has cast a decisive effect on human life, it is just knowledge. Human life and knowledge almost reached an inseparable relation. Since ancient times, mankind has groped for a new idea incessantly to maintain human life stably or get over the crisis of life. And their results have been stored and preserved in the form of concept, knowledge, and theory. But can such knowledge have still its value also invariably in time and space? Indeed, how can the conditions of knowledge called universality endure such changes? Through this study this writer will attempt to review the phenomena of catastrophizing of life as well as mental impoverishment out of the phenomena of the crises of life nowadays on the big knowledge, and connect it to the small knowledge again. In the former, especially I will recall a typical characteristic of the paradigms of knowledge passing through the western history of mentality. And in the latter, I will study what kinds of influences the characteristic of the paradigms of existing knowledge cast on the agony of our life nowadays. Based on this, I will seek for healing knowledge as the educational and therapeutic knowledge for the production of alterative knowledge to solve the phenomenon. Especially today I will disclose the production method of necessary healing knowledge by grafting it with the methodic study of philosophical class. Through this, I will suggest healing knowledge as a type of philosophical knowledge necessary to get over the mental crisis we confront today.

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