- Created By
- First Aired on
Mar 26, 2000
- Popularity: 2.6525
- 8 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till May 07, 2000
Last episode: Nietzsche on Hardship
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Seneca on Anger24 min
Seneca 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?
Episode 2Schopenhauer on Love24 min
German 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.
Episode 3Epicurus on Happiness24 min
Alain 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
Episode 4Montaigne on Self-Esteem24 min
Why 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.
Episode 5Socrates on Self-Confidence24 min
Alain 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
