L. Stepelevich

Phone book reading.

Revisado: 05-25-18

Heraclitus deserves a better reading than this breathless and all-too rapid monotone recital . Fragments read out like a grocery list.

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A Grouchy Socrates

Revisado: 12-28-17

I have read Plato off and on for some years. His Socrates is often a bit dogmatic, with little than affirmative and uncritical responses to his view of things. That's acceptable, but in this particular reading he comes across as a grumpy old man. That's not acceptable.

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A Professor's Professor

Revisado: 10-09-17

Being a Hegelian, I simply took Hegel's treatment of Stoic Philosophy, as most have, as nothing other than a withdrawal from the exhausting "Master-Slave" struggle. However, Professor Irvine takes Stoicism as a more positive response to the pressures of objectivity upon subjectivity, and rather than exchanging and equating the terms "rational and real" sets about to stress the "rational" aspect -- in which rationality is taken as the ground for that which is ultimately desired -- a state of "Tranquility";-- a higher and more active state of consciousness than simple Buddhistic withdrawal. Irvine's reformation of the common view of Stoicism is very coherent and compelling, and he manages to cast his study into an intelligently popular tone, without it being compromised. His treatment of Stoicism could well be taken as the philosophical framework for Cognitive Behaviorist Therapy Here, it might be added that his personal values, expressed in a few anecdotes, reveal him as a contemporary "Sage" of Stoic philosophy -- in short, he is more than an mere observer and recorder of Stoicism. Irvine's work is a "must read" for those who think that philosophy, and particularly classic philosophy, is a dead issue. This is hardly the case. Incidentally, Cronin's reading is perfect.

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A good introductory text

Revisado: 08-10-17

I did hope for a more extensive consideration of the specific cognitive dysfunctions, but otherwise a well-articulated introduction to the central principles of CBT.

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