Using Your Personal Philosophy to Make Yourself Virtuous

Key points

Logic-based therapy matches fallacies in negative emotions with virtues.

These virtues have core meaning, like confronting fear despite uncertainty, and personal meaning.

A person can embrace their own personal philosophy (e.g., existentialism) and make it their mantra.

Practicing this philosophy, cognitively and behaviorally, enacts the virtue and builds new positive emotions.

One of the special features of logic-based therapy (LBT), in contrast to other forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is LBT’s matching of “ guiding virtues ” to “cardinal fallacies.” According to LBT, there are 11 groups of fallacies that are often embedded in the reasoning processes of emotions such as anxiety , depression , guilt , and anger . There, they tend to generate the