PHILOSOPHY - Epicurus

This Greek philosopher, one of our favourites, spent his life arriving at fascinating answers to the largest puzzle there is: What makes people happy?

Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/Gv8uC

Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/ji9jY

FURTHER READING

“The Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus was born in 341 BC, on the island of Samos, a few miles off the coast of modern Turkey. He had an unusually long beard, wrote over three hundred books and was one of the most famous philosophers of his age.
What made him famous was his skilful and relentless focus on one particular subject:happiness. Previously, philosophers had wanted to know how to be good; Epicurus insisted he wanted to focus on how to be happy...”

You can read more here: https://goo.gl/I5D8mj

MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE

More films on PHILOSOPHY in our playlist below:
http://bit.ly/TSOLphilosophy

Do you speak a different language to English? Did you know you can submit Subtitles on all of our videos on YouTube? For instructions how to do this click here: https://goo.gl/cQoOUm

SOCIAL MEDIA

Feel free to follow us at the links below:

Facebook:   / theschooloflifelondon  
Twitter:   / theschooloflife  
Instagram:   / theschooloflifelondon  

CREDITS

Produced in collaboration with:

Mad Adam
http://www.madadamfilms.co.uk #TheSchoolOfLife