JEREMY BENTHAM Right actions bring happiness Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an English philosopher and social reformer, was one of the main thinkers in the history of modern ethics. He was the first to formulate the principles of Utilitarianism, according to which actions are right or wrong depending only on the happiness (“utility”) or unhappiness which they produce. This idea was later developed by his student, the philosopher John Stuart Mill, so that philosophers nowadays often quote Mill more than Bentham.       Bentham was...

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 PHILOSOPHY PUZZLE # 15 Solution to the puzzle  THUS SPOKE... WHO? Send us your answers by Saturday night, January 23, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The five passages below are from famous philosophical texts. Well, not exactly – they are only approximate paraphrases of the original texts (so you cannot identify them with an Internet search engine). How many philosophers can you identify? PHILOSOPHER 1 Years ago I noticed that many of the things which I believed to be true were in fact false....

VIDEO: Helge Svare - Practice of dialogue [spvideo]https://youtu.be/zKv8lI92juc[/spvideo] Helge Svare (PhD in philosophy) co-founded in 1997 the first group of philosophical practitioners in Oslo, Norway. He has been active in developing and managing the Norwegian educational program in dialogical and philosophical practice. He now organizes dialogue-oriented projects at the Work Research Institute in Oslo. {jcomments on}

VIDEO: Adam WallenbergPhilosophy beyond theoretical thinking [spvideo]https://youtu.be/MyO0ScdjFxE[/spvideo] Adam Wallenberg is vice-chairman of the Swedish Society of Philosophical Practice, board member of the Society of Existential Psychotherapy, and a philosophy teacher in Uppsala, Sweden. Since 2013 he has been working in philosophical projects with children in Sweden and Nepal. Based at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, he develops methods of existential philosophizing about art with young people. {jcomments on}

видео: Ран Лахав. Что собственно философского в философском консультировании? [spvideo]https://youtu.be/8kfE4e4__rA[/spvideo] Ран Лахав является философом-практиком в Израиле и США с 1992 года,работает как индивидуально, так и с группами. В 1992 году он начал преподавание первого в мире университетского курса по философскому консультированию. Он инициатор и организатор Первой Международной конференции по философской практике 1994 года. {jcomments on}

 A PHILOSOPHY CROSSWORD PUZZLE A COMPETITION – WIN A FREE BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE FROM LOYEV BOOKS! E-mail us the solution of this crossword puzzle (scanned or list of answers) by July 20 to Agora (Agoraphilosophy at gmail.com). The first three winners will receive a free book of their choice from Loyev Books (https://philopractice.org/web/loyev-books). The correct answer will be published on the weekend of July 22 on Agora’s Loyev Books page. ACROSS 1. For Eric Fromm, _ _ _ _ love...

VIDEO: Are Seljevold - Philosophical Café in prison [spvideo]https://youtu.be/O6Snzew_AL0[/spvideo] Are Seljevold is a board member of the Norwegian Society for Philosophical Practice, with a Master’s degree in philosophy. Since 2012 he has been facilitating philosophical dialogues with prison inmates. He is also a private philosophical practitioner, and a healthcare worker. {jcomments on}

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Conference announcement   Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage (Ca' Foscari University, Venice) and Amica Sofia    In partnership with: Società Filosofica Italiana (SFI, in cooperation with the local sections of Venice and Treviso), Fondazione S. Carlo di Modena, Centro Studi sui Diritti Umani (CESTUDIR, Ca' Foscari University), Master in Philosophical Counseling (COFIL, Ca' Foscari, University)  Announce the conference     The right to philosophy Which Philosophy for the Third Millennium? Venice, Ca' Foscari University, October the 19th-21th, 2015   Jacques Derrida...

Conference: "Reflecting oneself in the world: Cosmopolitanism for Inclusion" Naples, Italy , 3.-4. September 2015   

Philosophical Companionships online in Portuguese 1º Grupo de Companheirismo Filosófico em Português on line Introdução: 4 Sessões November 19, 2015   Facilitadora: Maria João Neves Ph.D (Co-Directora com Ran Lahav do programa de Companheirismo Filosófico da AGORA) Horário: 4 Sessões de 90 minutos, Quintas- feiras das 20h às 21.30h. Início19 Nov. 2015 Equipamento: Computador; conexão à Internet; Skype. Habilitações preferênciais: Licenciatura em Filosofia/ Experiência em Filosofia prática Preço: 40€ por participante Contacto: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   O Companheirismo Filosófico é um novo formato...

First International Φilia Retreat of Philosophical Companionship October 15-20, 2015, Algarve, Portugal   The First International Φilia Retreat will take part in Algarve, in the south of Portugal, between October 15-20, 2015. The retreat is aimed at exploring the Philosophical Companionship as a new format in the field of Philosophical Practice. An international team of 10 experienced philosophical practitioners will experiment with a variety of methods and procedures during those four days. The retreat will take place in Casa das Pedras near the...

Philosophical Practice – Quo Vadis?   by Ran Lahav (Based on a lecture given in the 2014 ICPP, Belgrade) Philosophical practice is a movement, born in the 1980s, of philosophers who believe that philosophy can be made relevant to the life of the person in the street. They believe that philosophy can help make life fuller and more meaningful, and it should therefore interest the general public, not just professional philosophers. However, when we look at the present state of the...

THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE MOVEMENT An excerpt from chapter one of my dissertation:Philosophical Counseling and Teaching: “Holding the Tension” in a Dualistic World(May 1998) by Maria Tillmanns         The philosophical practice movement started during the early nineteen eighties in Europe as well as in the United States. It seems to be a perfect example of a Zeitgeist phenomenon. The time was ripe, and a number of people with a strong interest in philosophy "suddenly" had the brain wave,...

 Call for Papers  We invite you to either post your announcements, events or invitations on our blog (left) or  publish here papers (right) about any aspect of the history of the philosophical practice movement: about its overall development, about specific stages in its history, about earlier historical precursors to the movement, about the development of your own local association, and so on. Papers should be between 1000-8000 words more or less, written in any major language but preferably in English. Papers...