Overview: How do you keep your conversations light and playful yet profound? How do you ask the right questions, with the right words, at the right moment? The Philosophical Conversation: The Basics by author Kristof Van Rossem teaches you the basics of philosophical skills and instructs how to get started.

Verdict: Ergo, The Philosophical Conversation: The Basics is a most divine philosophical score, which provides you with the right attitude, technique and execution, determines the rhythm. Inside these pages there are all kinds of exercises to help you think more accurately and show you how to share that with others.

In what is a most impassioned, dutifully cultivated and magnificently sculpted new book, here in The Philosophical Conversation: The Basics you will quickly discover an all-encompassing investigation into the Spirit World at a rather comforting level of prose.

In short, a philosophy of practice is the set of values that guides a practitioner’s behavior to be ethically appropriate, clinically accurate, and legal. It defines the rules, roles, relationships, and responsibilities of the practitioner. A philosophy of practice is specific to a practice, not the practitioner.

Thus here within some very impassioned prose, author Kristof elegantly details how dialogue can be philosophical and practical at the very same time, although, in all truth, it is also possible to state that all philosophical work is a practice, in and unto itself, since it is always an exercise of the mind.

Nevertheless, the distinction introduced tries to distinguish a certain idea of ​​philosophy, where it is not so much the knowledge of the authors, the schools of thought and the tradition that interests us, but rather the activity of thinking as such. Between Socrates and Aristotle was dug an important gap. Philosophy as dialogue became rapidly a lecturing activity, where a teacher gives his students the knowledge they need to assimilate, a form of teaching that is now rather hegemonic in the academy.

A book that comes chock full of dutifully crafted analogies and metaphors, that all come together to eagerly facilitate philosophical conversations to life, whilst at the same time illustrating the science of questioning everything whilst at all times thinking philosophically, we are informed that by philosophical practice we mean an exercise that is not reserved to an intellectual elite, but is neither a banalization of philosophical culture either.

Indeed, the issue is to invite everyone to work through the various constraints of philosophizing. Questioning, arguing, problematizing, conceptualizing, analyzing. Yes, there are so many mental gestures necessary for this martial art of thought, that it then implies to question and to understand the world, others and oneself; to determine at best our actions, for the simple pleasure of thinking.

In and unto itself, Philosophical consultation is basically about the care of the self, about the “know thyself”, about searching for a “good life”, a quest for wisdom, becoming conscious of oneself and the world. It is not a psychological approach, where one tells his life and his pains, nor a coaching where one seeks to solve the problems of everyday life, but a real philosophical work, where we pose problems, where we produce hypotheses, where we conceptualize the discourse, and we engage in a critique.

Certainly, a subject is summoned, but for a mise en abyme, and not simply to express oneself or for an exchange of opinions. The dialogue then becomes the occasion of a close interrogation, the place for a demanding thought.

In closing, and simply put, this book offers profound lessons in how to perform such philosophical conversations, both professionally and within your own personal life. It is well written and created for even the most absolute beginner to grasp onto and easily follow along with.

So buy this book and quickly discover within its seven Chapters - The Characteristics, The Score, The Posture, The Technique, The Performance, The Structure and The Goal - the joy of making music with words.

About the Author - Kristof Van Rossem works as an independent philosopher and is specialised in the art of questioning and in Socratic dialogue. He is teaching Business Ethics at the Odisee Highschool in Belgium and is a teacher (trainer) of philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He lives in Meldert, Belgium.

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