Psychology and the Spiritual–Moral Dimensions of the Human Being

Author’s Preface

Rabbi Dr. Shimon Dovid Cowen is the son of the former Governor-General of Australia, Sir Zelman Cowen. He has been engaged in scholarly research in both secular and religious fields, taught at Sir John Monash University in Melbourne (Monash University), Australia, and founded the Institute for Judaism and Civilization, of which he serves as director.
He has translated several of Viktor Frankl’s works from German into English and is the author of the significant introduction to the book The Rediscovery of the Human — Psychological Writings of Viktor Frankl on the Human in the Image of the Divine.

Rabbi Dr. Cowen also specializes in the field of universal ethics, understood as the Noahide Code—the root and central pillar of the moral doctrine of the world’s religions. His principal work in this field, The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics — The Noahide Laws, has been translated from English into Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). References to the sources cited in these five lectures can be found in these books.

Rabbi Dr. Shimon Cowen has a particular interest in the intersection of psychology and universal ethics. This is reflected in the Five Lectures presented here, which Rabbi Dr. Shimon Cowen delivered to multicultural and multilingual audiences around the world.

Five Lectures:

• Logotherapy as Therapy for Collective and Individual Trauma
• Viktor Frankl’s Own Intellectual Path to Logotherapy
• Logotherapy as a Complementary Therapy
• Self-Transcendence for All
• Universal Values: Human Consciousness and Conscience