Türk Manevi Danışmanlık ve Rehberlik Dergisi
Yazarlar: Emel GÜVENÇ
Konular:Din Bilimi
Anahtar Kelimeler:Spiritual counseling and care,Philosophy,Socratic dialogue,Maieutic method,Self conscious
Özet: Spiritual counseling and care tend to support the people of today's world by feeding on spiritual resources. Spiritually oriented counseling, which comes to the fore as an alternative type of counseling for the modern individual who struggles with many existential situations such as death, loneliness and alienation, aims to help counselee against difficult situations of life. Similarly, practical philosophy strives for human healing. He develops reflection on the ways for him to reach true happiness. In this context, Socratic philosophy can contribute to spiritual counseling because it aims to care for the soul rather than the body, to live with virtue and to develop insight in the individual by using the method of maieutic. Our main purpose in our article, which we associate Socrates' maieutic method with the methods of spiritual counseling, is to look at the field of spiritual counseling in the axis of philosophical thought. Through this method, he aimed to transform his dialogue with his interlocutor into a quality relational process. Throughout the article, Socrates' mentioned "maieutic method" will be examined in connection with spiritual counseling. As a matter of fact, the importance of qualified communication that the individual is expected to establish with himself, and his environment is obvious to the field of spiritual counseling. Socratic method with two stages, starts with irony. At the first stage, Socrates asks his interlocutor with the claim that he knows not anything and makes him feel that he may be wrong in what he thinks he knows very well. In the next stage, it will be an intellectual maieutic by Socrates. Socrates, who acts such as a midwife in this process, aims to reveal the moral truths believed to already exist in people's souls. In this birth process, Socrates supports the pregnant soul for the sake of reaching real knowledge. This is a kind of comradeship, a kind of guidance relationship. Socratic dialogue with the counselee enables his doxas to be tested in a sincere atmosphere. The aim is that the counselor, just like a midwife, helps the counselee to be born. Throughout the article, the importance of developing the individual's personal philosophical insight, creating self-consciousness, and making sense of existence will be emphasized, and these issues, which are also the field of spiritual counseling, will be approached from a philosophical perspective. Therefore, the aim of the article is to examine Socratic maieutic method in the axis of philosophical foundations of spiritual counseling and guidance and in parallel with modern spiritual counseling practices.