By Emma Seppälä — 2013
Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.
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“We’ve been suddenly plunged into an existential crisis, and we’re not a society in general that turns to deep questions of life meaning.”
Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.
Frankl’s thesis echoes those of many sages, from Buddhists to Stoics to his 20th century Existentialist contemporaries: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
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We all want more well-being in our lives.
Viktor Frankl is the founder of logotherapy, a form of psychotherapy that he developed after surviving Nazi concentration camps in the 1940s.