PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING AS A CONTRIBUTION IN THE FORMATION OF THE HUMAN PERSON, ACCORDING TO EDITH STEIN

Abstract

Philosophical advice arises from the thesis that philosophy must go beyond the walls of universities and, therefore, it must be inserted in a practical way in our daily lives. Started by Gerd B. Anchenbach in 1982 in Germany, this new conception of philosophy has expanded throughout the world, taking on various nomenclatures. Its criteria, approaches and methods have become increasingly effective, to the point of promoting and offering the necessary assistance for the person's own formation as such. We cannot always understand the existential and peripheral problems of life, therefore, many of the problems cannot be treated from a psychological or psychiatric point of view, but they can be understood and solved from Philosophical Counseling, which is not a therapy for the sick. , but for them they are. However, it is possible, through universal philosophical questions, to address basic questions inherent to human beings: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where I go? According to Edith Stein, the path to the formation of the human person, depends on such reflections that, through a continuous process of interiorization and search for truth, allows the individual to awaken his inner and forming forces in view of the search for his central nucleus. Thus, describing the structure of the human being and presenting the concept of formation based on his phenomenological method, Edith Stein states that, human formation consists of going in search of the personal nucleus, that is, discovering what we have of originality (being individual, identity) in order to meet the truest self and free oneself from the woes of life, becoming the subject of history itself. However, Philosophical Counseling based on Socratic maieutics: “know yourself” contributes qualitatively to the formation of the human person, allowing the individual to find through reflection, the light to reach the essence of his own being.