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

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The Secrets of Happiness

i was introduced to bertrand russell before i was introduced to seneca. And i was struck by how much it a, how strongly it contrasted to most of the philosophy i had been exposed to. The great challenge of our own age is to take the good ideas and make them available to a wide public. I mean, they inform ion a narrow coterie of students, but there are stand outside the kind of democratic project. We live we live in a world where ideas have to have followings in the millions if they're ever to get traction. So soonii, that was my experience as well, and it enrages me and saddens me.

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