It’s just a cold hard fact, isn’t it? PHILOSOPHER: No, you are wrong.
YOUTH: How? Where am I wrong? PHILOSOPHER: What you are calling a causal relationship is something that Adler explains as “apparent cause and effect.”
That is to say, you convince yourself that there is some serious causal relationship where there is none whatsoever.
The other day, someone told me, “The reason I can’t get married easily is that my parents got divorced when I was a child.”
From the viewpoint of Freudian etiology (the attributing of causes), the parents’ divorce was a great trauma,
which connects in a clear causal relationship with one’s views on marriage.
Adler, however, with his stance of teleology (the attributing of purpose), rejects such arguments as “apparent cause and effect.”
YOUTH: But even so, the reality is that having a good education makes it easier to be successful in society.
I had thought you were wise to the ways of the world.
PHILOSOPHER: The real issue is how one confronts that reality.
If what you are thinking is, I’m not well educated, so I can’t succeed, then instead of I can’t succeed, you should think,
I don’t want to succeed. YOUTH: I don’t want to succeed? What kind of reasoning is that?
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