PERFORMANCE ORIENTED PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING AND ITS APPLICATION IN IT COMPANIES

Abstract

Since it's emergance in 1980's philosophical counselling developed according to several different notions, following different influences, but so far did not make any greater impact in academic circles and did not start more important discussion, which it probably deserves. There are still those who believe it can make a difference and contribute to philosophical discourse both inside and outside academic circles. In this paper such attempt will be made, with description how philosophical dialogue can have an important purpose outside of academia and in everyday life of contemporary society.

Similar to philosophical counseling, IT industry is still young and in development, with no concrete predictions of it's near or far future. Here we will describe how a new approach to philosophical dialogue and philosophical counseling can be implemented in IT environment and help their employees in order to question their reality. This new method aims to promote philosophizing as a practice which has an important role in self-development and builds on the notion of taking care of the self through investigation and concrete actions.