In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALW...
I suggest that understanding Frankl as only claiming that all people have a potential for meaningful lives is also unhelpful. Finally, I discuss the implications of my criticism for Frankl's theory at large. I argue that much in this very helpful theory can be retained, but identify those ...
Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed the psychological approach known as logotherapy, widely recognized as the ‘third school’ of Viennese psychotherapy. Frankl’s theory was that the individual’s primary motivation is
Viktor Frankl’s recognition of freedom of will and the human spirit reflects his philosophical position that human beings, unlike animals or machines, have the capacity to rise above the macro social forces of industrialization and freely pursue their own interests and dreams in order to endow the...
VIKTOR FRANKL ON FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE DEATH CAMPS: A CRITIQUEdoi:10.1111/j.1467-9833.1982.tb00550.xJamesWoelfelWileyJournal of Social Philosophy
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