A Review of: “Cooper,M., O'Hara,M., Schmid,P. F., & Wyatt,G. (2007). The Handbook of Person-Centered Psychotherapy and Counseling.”

Abstract

Consideration is given to our cognitive, volitional, and emotive functions as they are experienced in the I‐It and I‐Thou realms of our existence, focusing on our emotive function. Feelings in the I‐It realm are limited to the physical and psychical parts of ourselves. They are defensive and motivate our survival in the world. In the I‐Thou realm, they permeate our whole being, including that part of ourselves that is beyond phenomenological manifestation that lies at the ground of our being as potential awaiting actualization. Our ontology necessitates the experience of our primary feelings in our struggle to become what we are uniquely “created” to be. Dialogical psychotherapists consider this as crucial to our therapeutic endeavors.     

Cookson,R., Griffin,S., Norheim,O. F., & Culyer,A. J. (Eds.). (2020). Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Quantifying Health Equity Impacts and Trade-Offs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780198838197). £ 28.03. 365 pp

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice -     

T.C.Kline Ⅲ and Justin Tiwald,eds., Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi

The stated aim of Kline and Tiwald in Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi is to "support and develop the claim made by Edward Machle that Xunzi is a religious philosopher" [and that] "overemphasis on Xunzi's critique of religious practice arises from mistaken conclusions drawn from an examination of Xunzi's ritual theory" (1).To this end,the editors have divided the book into three sections:religious vision,ritual theory,and comparative approaches,with Machle's contribution forming the first of the book's seven chapters.