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Metaphysics of Philosophical Counseling and Agent’s Practical Reasoning

HAN WOOJIN 1

1덕성여자대학교

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Philosophical counseling has established its identity that distinguishes itself from psychological counseling. Non-directiveness, reciprocity, and critical thinking have been mentioned as inherent properties of philosophical counseling. Recently, an interesting metaphysical problem about philosophical and psychological counseling was raised. Psychological counseling, which supposes mental causation as its metaphysical assumption, is vulnerable to Kim’s exclusion argument. However, Logic-Based Therapy, a sort of philosophical therapy, can dodge the exclusion argument, since it does not appeal to mental causation but employs deductive reasoning which goes back to Aristotle’s practical reasoning. Nevertheless, logical necessity found in deductive reasoning is insufficient to provide a legitimate metaphysical ground for philosophical counseling. Practical reasoning guaranteeing agent’s rationality should be able to evaluate appropriateness of reasons for actions beyond just logical necessity in deductive reasoning. It can also utilize varied traditions of philosophy. Agent’s practical reasoning has its metaphysical strength in that it is not vulnerable to the exclusion argument, since it does not necessarily suppose mental causation. Agent’s practical reasoning presents justification not only for diverse practices of philosophical counseling but also for kinds of psychological counseling which have borrowed qualitative elements from philosophy.

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