Philosophy: A Path with Heart

About the Book

Philosophy: A Path with Heart is an autobiographically structured story of the author’s deeply personal, emotional, and engaging encounter with philosophy, psychology, and spiritual concerns of the mind and heart from the age of thirteen. Significantly more attention is paid to philosophy than biography. The reader is asked to consider the philosophical, moral, political, environmental, and spiritual issues on which the author has reflected, and with which he continues to dance. He cites in some detail the writings of Barry, Halifax, Harner, Illich, Jung, Kluckhohn, Marx, Parsons, Safina, Swimme, Shills, Tillich, and Wilber. The book attempts to inspire an appreciation of philosophy as an ongoing dialogue with one’s self and others. This dialogue is how his or her world is created, and directly responsible for forming the physical, social, and personal space in which they live. Philosophy is asking more of oneself than facile play with a Smartphone. Philosophy is creating a home for the soul as a house is constructed as a home for the body. What are you building for yourself and those around you?

About the Author

For this author, philosophy is mysteriously seductive, exciting, and nourishing; it has been and remains the intellectual, spiritual, and soulful gyroscope in his life. His intention in writing is to share how this philosophical gyroscope has allowed him to stay afloat, well oriented, spiritually engaged, and sailing on enthusiastically. Perseverance through a BS degree in electrical engineering (RHIT), a master’s degree in philosophy (ISC), two years of study at Union Theological Seminary (NYC), a year and a half study and analysis at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, and a PhD in counseling psychology (ISU) brought him to an enriching and satisfying career in teaching family medicine residents, and clinical practice for thirty-three years (MUSC). Over the last thirty-five years, the author has practiced and taught Tae Kwon Do to children and adults. Now a sixth dan black belt, he will, someday, go to rest in a simple pine casket, wearing a gi and a white belt. For more circular and gracefully intimate exercise, he enjoys dancing with his wife. They share the successes, joys, and frustrations of an ever-growing extended family on two continents.