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#118: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton

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How Do You Come to Understand the Philosophy of Everyday Life?

I think one of the challenges, perhaps, is that when people get to a certain point and they're grappling with self actualization and so on, there they're a few tere flies in the ointment. And it is when i look at, for instance, the cases of suicide that i have encountered in my own life. In every case, they are far enough up maslo's hierarchy of needs that they have satisfied shelter, hunger or food, et cetera. I did you become interested in these questionsd of course. But how did you, how did you fall into or become attracted to these types of questions?

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