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The School of Life is a British multinational [2] social media company founded in 2008 by British author and public speaker Alain de Botton. [3] [4] The company is headquartered in London. [5] It publishes various materials dealing with the topics of anxiety management, [6] emotional intelligence, relationships, work, creativity, and spirituality.
Alain de Botton FRSL ( / dəˈbɒtən /; born 20 December 1969) is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can ...
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. [ 1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving it with a life spent practicing the four virtues in everyday life—wisdom, courage, temperance or ...
Christian philosophy; Classical Marxism; Collegium Conimbricense; Communitarianism; Computationalism; Connectionism; Confucianism; Continental philosophy; Critical realism (philosophy of perception) Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences) Cynicism; Cyrenaics
Lebensphilosophie ( German: [ˈleːbm̩s.filozoˌfiː]; meaning ' philosophy of life ') was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. Lebensphilosophie emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy.
Philosophers. v. t. e. Hellenistic philosophy is Ancient Greek philosophy corresponding to the Hellenistic period in Ancient Greece, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. [ 1] The dominant schools of this period were the Stoics, the Epicureans and the Skeptics. [ 2]
Cynicism (philosophy) Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museums in Rome. This statue is a Roman-era copy of an earlier Greek statue from the third century BC. [1] The scroll in his right hand is an 18th-century restoration. Cynicism ( Ancient Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy ...
The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophies and schools that flourished during the late Spring and Autumn period [1] and Warring States period ( c. 500 – 221 BC). [2] The term was not used to describe these different philosophies until Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism were created. [3] The era in which they flourished was one of ...