"You can be your worst enemy, but the next in the line is the person with whom we shares an intimate relationship. Living with someone provides much information on how to make that person unhappy. Socrates was aware of the capacity inherent in whom we are closest to us more harm than anyone, and to love more than anyone, when he formulated his ethics symmetrical: "We are able to do a certain amount of good, and always accompanied by the ability to do the same amount of evil”
-Lou Marinoff-
Plato, Not Prozac is a book by French author Lou Marinoff, where with a bit of humor, while seriously and in depth, we show philosophical views on the issues of everyday life.
This book starts from the proposition that today many of the internal problems of the people can not be treated right through the psychology and psychiatry, because although these have a range of action within the healing of the human psyche, are very limited in some aspects, such as anxiety that may cause an ethical dilemma at work (for example, trying to decide between laying off workers to increase profits of the company or reduce these profits to keep staff) or the death of a loved. Given this situation, Marinoff suggests psychological counseling as an alternative means of therapy, where the "patient" trying to put their priorities and values in order, then put your life in harmony with this hierarchy that help you discover the philosopher.
Issues such as family life, the depression, the ethical conflicts at work, death of a loved one, raising children are treated in this book from a perspective very different from what common sense tells us (aka the "doxa" Aristotle), and although this book may not be the panacea to relieve our anxieties undoubtedly give us some interesting insights about our everyday
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