RE: Announcement! Book Published! Happiness!
Will be reading your book once that is possible (This morning still only on pre-order). Amazing accomplishment to be published, to be sure! Well done, very proud of you, fellow Steemian.
I like how you call a diagnosis a (commercialised) judgement and not an obstinate truth.
It has come to my attention for many a year, already, that philosophy is slowly crawling towards psychology - mainly to stand a better chance at making its appearance in the media. The latter, in turn, scrambles arrogantly away from this again, loathe for a collaboration. Perhaps, your book may help to amalgamate both modern modes of exploring phenomena. (As long as you don’t end up as the over-simplifying Alain de Botton - not all non-philosophers are ninnies!)
This said from a philosopher by approach not learning - and a great believer in subjective perception as and when it is linked to our common wisdom-mind.
Appreciated. And yes, it's also a good guideline for me, to not become Alain de Botton, mainly because I don't find his books compelling and interesting enough to read them myself. But I do agree with you, that philosophy is to open its doors and to invite people in more, and the step towards psychology... hmm, I think philosophy has always been about what it means to be human, just that some schools have pretended that is not an interesting question. I'm very interested to hear what you will think of the book!