Out of all of life’s complex aspects, love is one of the least debated about in the world of philosophy. It would seem that either the philosophers didn’t deem love to be worthy of deep thought, or perhaps they did not know what to make of it. Yet there is one philosopher in Germany who attempted to unravel the secret of love: Arthur Schopenhauer.
Known in the literary world for his

We all face hardships and adversity in our lives, and often things don’t go the way we want them to go. Problems and setbacks are to be expected in our lives, but rather than trying to avoid these problems, one of Germany‘s most famous philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche, encourages us to embrace setbacks and adversity, in order to overcome these problems and

Anger is among the most powerful of human emotions. A great number of people neither know how to control it nor how to cope with it. Instead, we let it control us and it makes us do things which we might later regret. By consulting the ancient roman philosopher Seneca, Botton tries to explain to us why we get angry and how we can control it. Seneca believed we get angry simply because our expectations for any given aspect in life are too

In this epidsode, Botton asks the question if money really does make us happy, or if it is something else that we require in order to be happy. Modern society tricks us into thinking that all we need in order to lead a happy life is money or material things, yet we can see that rich people often have fits of depression and other negative feelings. What we want is not necessarily what we need. Botton

In this episode, Botton takes on the challenge of explaining just what people with low self-esteem can do in order to feel more adequate or equal. To do that, he travels to France, where he introduces us to Michel de Montaigne who is widely popular due to his humorous personal anecdotes, yet analytical thinking about social problems. He teaches us that just because someone has more money

In this episode, Alain de Botton takes us into the world of philosophy and tries to explain to us how exactly we can become more assertive and self-confident in our beliefs, based on the ideas and teachings of Socrates. In Athens, Botton shows us just how modern society has become essentially a herd of sheep following a certain powerful