Season 1
6 episodes · Mar 26, 2000
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S1E1Seneca on Anger
Mar 26, 200024mSeneca believed anger flowed from our surprise when things don't turn out how we expect. Can Seneca's advice help angry van driver Wayne and stressed executive Venetia?
S1E2Schopenhauer on Love
Apr 2, 200024mGerman philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer believed that love was the most important thing in life. His philosophy explains the mystery of why we fall in love with the people we do.
S1E3Epicurus on Happiness
Apr 9, 200024mAlain De Botton considers how the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus believed there were just three simple things we needed in order to be happy, and money wasn't one of them
S1E4Montaigne on Self-Esteem
Apr 16, 200024mWhy do so many people suffer from feelings of low self-esteem? Alain De Botton looks at the problem through the eyes of the French 16th-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
S1E5Socrates on Self-Confidence
Apr 30, 200024mAlain demonstrates that ancient Athenian philosopher Socrates can help give us all the intellectual self-confidence we need to work out what we really think and believe
S1E6Nietzsche on Hardship
May 7, 200024mFriedrich Nietzsche believed that any worthwhile achievements in life come from the experience of overcoming hardship, and that a comfortable, painless existence wouldn't be worth living