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  • Freedom and Structure: Sartre’s Praxis as a Critique of Foucault’s Theory of Discourse

    Freedom and Structure: Sartre’s Praxis as a Critique of Foucault’s Theory of Discourse

    1. Introduction This essay compares and contrasts Foucault’s and Sartre’s approaches to understanding history, firstly by examining Foucault’s theory of discourse in his The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and Sartre’s concept of individual praxis from his Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). While Sartre’s Critique was not a response to Foucault’s philosophy, as it was published almost a decade prior to Foucault’s Archaeology,…

  • Why CBT Should Not Be the ‘Gold Standard’ of Psychotherapy

    Why CBT Should Not Be the ‘Gold Standard’ of Psychotherapy

    CBT is the abbreviation of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which is widely considered the McNuggets of the psychotherapeutic industry. To start, I would say that I am personally not a hater of CBT, nor do I have any vendetta against it. As an avid philosophy reader, I find the fundamental principles of CBT to be largely…