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The profound teachings of the great philosophers lie at the center of this playlist How to Live: Philosophy. Each segment of the film explores the unique perspectives of legendary thinkers, including those expounded by Plato, Aristotle and Nietzsche. The insights provided by these towering figures remain relevant to our lives even today, and continue to challenge and inform our views on love, greed, conflict, spirituality and the art of being human.
Take the example set forth by Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most influential and prolific sermonizers of the existentialist movement. Through his novels and essays, Sartre articulated a world view that challenged the status quo and our widely accepted perceptions of reality. He recognized the absurdity in patterns and practices most others held as normal and logic-based. With a great disdain for capitalism and the sheepish obedience it inspired, Sartre urged each human being to open their eyes to the possibilities of freedom by unleashing themselves from the shackles of greed.
Three hundred years prior to the emergence of Jean-Paul Sartre, Francois de La Rochefoucauld adopted a decidedly less enthusiastic view on the possibilities of human kindness and possibility. “If one were to judge love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces,” La Rochefoucauld wrote, “it might very justly pass for hatred rather than kindness.” La Rochefoucauld’s life was largely defined by misfortunes in the form of exile, poverty, and crippling romantic hardship. The sum total of these experiences found voice through his masterful employment of aphorisms, a series of brief, succinct sentences designed to illustrate complex ideas with minimal text and maximum clarity. In its purest form, this approach can still be found today, particularly on social media platforms like Twitter.
In a matter of minutes, each segment of How to Live: Philosophy clearly and cleverly encapsulates the ideologies of these and many other great philosophers, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Epicurus, the Stoics and Augustine. Their perspectives run the gamut of human emotion and experience, and they speak to truths we all continue to grapple with in our everyday existence. But perhaps most importantly, the lessons they imparted provide us with a quantity which is sorely lacking in our modern society: enlightenment.
Plato: Allegory of the Cave | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 1
Plato: The Forms | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 2
Aristotle | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 3
Epicurus | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 4
The Stoics | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 5
Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 6
Augustine | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 7
Thomas Aquinas | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 8
Montaigne | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 9
La Rochefoucauld | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 10
Blaise Pascal | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 11
Rene Descartes | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 12
Baruch Spinoza | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 13
David Hume | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 14
Immanuel Kant | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 15
Burke | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 16
Soren Kierkegaard | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 17
Soren Kierkegaard | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 18
Schopenhauer | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 19
Hegel | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 20
Hegel | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 21
Nietzsche: Envy | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 22
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Nietzsche: Superman | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 23
Nietzsche: Amor Fati | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 24
Heidegger | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 25
Sartre | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 26
Sartre: Bad Faith | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 27
Albert Camus | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 28
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Ludwig Wittgenstein | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 29
Michel Foucault | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 30
Jacques Ferrida | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 31
Six Great Sayings from Western Philosophy | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 32
Emil Cioran | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 33
Eastern Vs Western Ideas of Happiness | How to Live | Philosophy Lessons | Part 34
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