哲学热来了｜倦怠社会，哲学让我们更有力量吗

Psychologists widely hold that an adult life can be traced back to childhood and family of origin, with attachment style predicting the quality of later intimate relationships. Dr Xiaoyun Peng argues the account is incomplete. Working through Albert Ellis's rational emotive behaviour therapy, she shows that therapists who claim value neutrality in fact smuggle in assumptions about what a good life is, while lacking the tools to examine them. The decisive variable, she argues, is not attachment style but the meaning system a person builds through reflection: two people with the same childhood and different belief systems behave differently in love and in work. Her examples run from Beauvoir and Sartre to Nietzsche and contemporary artists. The essay makes a case for philosophy not as therapy or consolation, but as the discipline that asks what a good life consists of, a question psychology is structurally unable to answer.