How to Live: Philosophy
The profound teachings of great philosophers are the focus of this How to Live: Philosophy playlist. Each segment of the film explores the unique perspective of legendary thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle and Nietzsche. The insights of these luminaries are relevant to our lives today and continue to challenge and shape our ideas about love, greed, conflict, spirituality, and the art of being human.
Take Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most influential and prolific evangelists of the existential movement. Through his novels and essays, Sartre articulated a worldview that challenged the status quo and our widely accepted notions of reality. He recognizes the absurdity of patterns and practices that most others consider normal and based on logic. With great contempt for capitalism and the clumsy obedience it inspires, Sartre challenges everyone to open their eyes to the possibility of freedom and to free themselves from the shackles of greed.
Three hundred years before Jean-Paul Sartre came along, Francois de La Rochefoucauld held a decidedly lesser view of the possibility of human goodness and possibility. Enthusiastic point of view. La Rochefoucauld wrote: “If love were judged primarily by its effects, it might be considered hatred rather than benevolence.” La Rochefoucauld lived largely in exile, poverty, and Adversity in the form of serious romantic difficulties is marked. The sum of these experiences is expressed through his masterful use of aphorisms, a series of short, concise sentences designed to illustrate complex ideas with a minimum of words and maximum clarity. In its purest form, this approach can still be found today, especially on social media platforms like Twitter.
Within minutes, each section of How to Live: Philosophy clearly and neatly summarizes the thinking of these and many other great philosophers, including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Epicurus, St. The Dogalists and Augustine. Their perspectives run the gamut of human emotion and experience, and they tell the truths we constantly grapple with in our everyday lives. But perhaps most importantly, the lessons they teach give us something sorely lacking in our modern society: enlightenment.
