This service is currently under further development, and will be launched later in 2025. Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you are interested to hear when I have launched. By then I plan to have a lot of writing of my own completed for use in our work. In the meantime, some books that will be central to the reading list include:
Raymond J. Devettere Introduction to Virtue Ethics: Insights of the Ancient Greeks
Peter J. Kreeft Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles
In the meantime, you can read about the service below, but please see my Philosophical Counselling here for the service I currently offer.
Character Formation
Character Formation is based on the classical philosophical tradition of Plato and Aristotle. Across thousands of years through ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, and (more sporadically) up to the present day, a tradition of classical philosophical education has given generations of people the capacity to think well and to live well in the world. This tradition is the formation of intellectual skills and of personal character. There are several classical models for this education, my favourite of which is the Stoic model, which divides it into the study of logic, metaphysics, and ethics. To study classical logic means to develop your rational capacities, your ability for intelligent, critical thinking. Metaphysics is an area of philosophy which studies the nature and meaning of reality, and classical metaphysics constinues to hold its own, and to challenge the mechanistic nihilism of modernity. Ethics is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue, in order to be a wise, strong, capable, good human being, who experiences life as good, and who makes life good (happiness, success, flourishing).
I act as a tutor, helping my client to develop their knowledge through this reading, and as a coach, helping them to develop that knowledge into skills and competencies. As a philosophical counsellor, with a background as an experienced psychotherapist, our work is responsive to your individual nature and concerns.
Raymond J. Devettere Introduction to Virtue Ethics: Insights of the Ancient Greeks
Peter J. Kreeft Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles
In the meantime, you can read about the service below, but please see my Philosophical Counselling here for the service I currently offer.
Character Formation
Character Formation is based on the classical philosophical tradition of Plato and Aristotle. Across thousands of years through ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, and (more sporadically) up to the present day, a tradition of classical philosophical education has given generations of people the capacity to think well and to live well in the world. This tradition is the formation of intellectual skills and of personal character. There are several classical models for this education, my favourite of which is the Stoic model, which divides it into the study of logic, metaphysics, and ethics. To study classical logic means to develop your rational capacities, your ability for intelligent, critical thinking. Metaphysics is an area of philosophy which studies the nature and meaning of reality, and classical metaphysics constinues to hold its own, and to challenge the mechanistic nihilism of modernity. Ethics is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue, in order to be a wise, strong, capable, good human being, who experiences life as good, and who makes life good (happiness, success, flourishing).
I act as a tutor, helping my client to develop their knowledge through this reading, and as a coach, helping them to develop that knowledge into skills and competencies. As a philosophical counsellor, with a background as an experienced psychotherapist, our work is responsive to your individual nature and concerns.