| Author | Steven R. McCarl, Steve Zaffron, |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Applied Philosophy, Landmark Education |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Publisher | http://www.contemporaryphilosophy.com/journal.htm |
Publication date | August 6, 2001 |
| Publication place |  United States |
| Media type | On-line professional journal |
| Pages | Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=278955 or DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.278955 |
The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum is a paper published in 2001 by the Journal of Contemporary Philosophy. One of the authors is a principle in Landmark Education, the organization that puts on the Landmark Forum. He has published two other papers since this one [1][2] It deals with contemporary methods of applying philosophy and Socratic dialog as instantiated in a course called the Landmark Forum put on by Landmark Education.
Here is the abstract of the paper: Philosophy promises more than contents of thought. It can cultivate openness to continuously arising new contents of thought. Unconsciously identifying with the contents of thought displaces this openness; the remedy for such unnoticed closed mindedness is self-knowledge. In the Socratic tradition the Landmark Forum - a forty-hour course sponsored by the employee owned Landmark Educational Corporation - provides a model of philosophy as the practical art of uncovering and expanding self-knowledge and thereby generating unforeseen ways of being in everyday life.[3]
Citation
editMcCarl, Steven R., Zaffron, Steve, Nielsen, Joyce McCarl and Kennedy, Sally Lewis, "The Promise of Philosophy and the Landmark Forum" . Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 & 2, Jan/Feb & Mar/Apr 2001 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=278955 or DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.278955