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Nicholas D. Smith (born 1949) is an American philosopher and James F. Miller Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College.He won the “Outstanding Academic Book for 1994” award for his book Plato’s Socrates (with Thomas Brickhouse).
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help.
Everything I Need To Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book: 2013 Diane Muldrow: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: 1948: Dale Carnegie: optimism How to Win Friends and Influence People: 1936: Dale Carnegie: success I Will Teach You To Be Rich: 2009: Ramit Sethi: success I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: 1992: Wendy Kaminer: anti ...
Personal development or self-improvement consists of activities that develops a person's capabilities and potential, enhance quality of life, and facilitate the realization of dreams and aspirations. [1] Personal development may take place over the course of an individual's entire lifespan and is not limited to one stage of a person's life.
In the preface to his 1880 book, Duty, Smiles wrote of Self-Help, "In America, the book has been more widely published and read than in Great Britain". The three didactic self-help juvenile novels published by English author G. A. Henty in the 1880s shows Smiles' influence. Each was an exposition of the philosophy of self-help as expressed by ...
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.In it, Haidt poses several "Great Ideas" on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—such as Plato, Buddha and Jesus—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
Psychagogy maintained its association with ethical and moral self-improvement, and during the 1920s psychagogic methods were assimilated into the work of hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy. The International Institute for Psychagogy and Psychotherapy was founded in 1924 by Charles Baudouin , a Swiss psychoanalyst.
Instead, truth could be accessed through one's own self-evaluation, improvement, and experience. The pedagogical techniques of the ancients, Vico argued, were better suited to bring to light this aspect of human flourishing despite scientific advancements in medicine, chemistry, and physics.