Le Gai savoir

"L'émission emprunte son nom à un livre de Nietzsche qui, sans lui cacher l'indifférence du monde, parvient à rendre son lecteur heureux. Partant du principe que la philosophie n'est pas une mode mais une nécessité, que ce n'est parce que la philosophie ne progresse pas qu'on ne peut pas faire de progrès en philosophie, qu'il faut parfois traiter les grands événements avec la légèreté qu'ils méritent et que la vérité qui dérange est préférable à l'illusion qui réconforte. Raphaël Enthoven se propose, chaque dimanche d'ouvrir un classique de la pensée et d'en servir la moelle aux auditeurs de France-Culture. Conçue comme un dialogue à bâtons rompus entre une élève et un professeur, scandée par la lecture des plus beaux extraits de chaque texte, l'émission a pour but de donner à comprendre, c'est-à-dire à aimer, des livres qui nous comprennent et nous aiment déjà."

Emission le Gai savoir

Examined Life

"In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas."

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/examined-life/

An Islamic History of Europe

"In this 90-minute documentary, Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning.

Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to reveal the vibrant civilisation that Muslims brought to the West. This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe.

His journey reveals the debt owed to Islam for its vital contribution to the European Renaissance." (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/islamic-history-europe.shtml)

http://www.sprword.com/videos/islamichistory/

The Perfect Home (III)

The Perfect Home (II)

The Perfect Home (I)

"The book The Architecture of Happiness was turned into a 3 hour documentary, titled The Perfect Home." (http://www.alaindebotton.com/pages/about/index.asp?PageID=110)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iiaC7UOWk

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Series 1. Episode 6. Nietzsche on Hardship

"We all face difficulties in our lives. But there's one philosopher who has particularly inspiring advice on how to deal with them.

Friedrich Nietzsche believed in a philosophical version of 'no pain, no gain': that any worthwhile achievements in life come from the experience of overcoming hardship, and that a comfortable, painless existence wouldn't be worth living.

Alain travels to Nietzsche's home in the Swiss Alps to tell the story of the philosopher's tormented life, before putting Nietzsche's theories to people who have faced difficulties or setbacks in their own lives."

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Series 1. Episode 5. Socrates on Self -Confidence

"Why do so many of us go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what we truly believe?

Partly because we're too easily swayed by other people's opinions - and partly because we don't know when to have confidence in our own.

Alain shows that the ancient Athenian philosopher Socrates can help give us all the intellectual self-confidence we need to work out what we really think and believe.

He visits Athens to tell the moving and inspiring story of how Socrates - a man who famously died for his beliefs - can help us stand up for our own." (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/philosophy-a-guide-to-happiness/episode-guide/series-1/episode-5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rsiER-OnU&feature=related

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Series 1. Episode 4. Montaigne on Self-Esteem

"Why do so many people suffer from feelings of low self-esteem?

Alain De Botton looks at the problem through the eyes of the French 16th century philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who singled out three main reasons why we might feel bad about ourselves - and offered practical solutions for them all.

Alain takes us on a personal journey from Montaigne's home near Bordeaux, to his own university, Cambridge, where he finds that people could still benefit from the lessons of Montaigne's philosophy." (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/philosophy-a-guide-to-happiness/episode-guide/series-1/episode-4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrSCoG2GY1M

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Series 1. Episode 3. Epicurus on Happiness

"The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus believed there were just three simple things we needed in order to be happy - and money wasn't one of them.

Alain reveals what those things were, in a journey that takes him to the ruins of the ancient city of Oinoanda in south-western Turkey.

The answers he finds there help him to look at consumer society through Epicurus' eyes and he discusses the philosopher's beliefs with unhappy shopaholic Stephen Perry." (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/philosophy-a-guide-to-happiness/episode-guide/series-1/episode-3)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LTTRQcZ8c

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Series 1. Episode 2. Schopenhauer on Love

"Surprisingly, perhaps, given how important it is to the rest of us, philosophers haven't tended to talk much about love.

An honourable exception was the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who believed that love was the most important thing in life.

Alain shows how the ideals of a man he calls 'philosophy's Dr Love' explain the mystery of why we fall in love with the people we do.

He believes that Schopenhauer's philosophy is particularly consoling to anyone who's been rejected, and he talks it over with Michele Hutchinson, whose boyfriend recently jilted her." (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/philosophy-a-guide-to-happiness/episode-guide/series-1/episode-2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFQsF-umH0

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. Series 1. Episode 1. Seneca on Anger

"Written and presented by Alain de Botton, this series is an entertaining, practical and psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded" (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/philosophy-a-guide-to-happiness)

"De Botton starts with anger and the philosopher Seneca who refused to view anger as an irrational outburst and thought it flowed from our surprise when things do not turn out the way we expect them to.

De Botton puts Seneca's advice to angry van driver Wayne Allingham and stressed-out executive Venetia Butterfield. How will they respond to the theories of a philosopher who died 2,000 years ago?" (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/philosophy-a-guide-to-happiness/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ0g7IKWG7E&feature=PlayList&p=3AB2124A01423D7E&index=0&playnext=1

The word "fuck"

Michael Sandel (Harvard): Justice - What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history, having taught more than 14,000 students over the course of two decades.

In this course, Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the right thing to do. He then asks us to examine our answers in the light of new scenarios. The results are often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white."

http://academicearth.org/courses/justice-whats-the-right-thing-to-do

TED: Ideas worth spreading

"Gather the world's leading thinkers and doers, offer them four days of rapid-fire stimulation, and the result? Unexpected connections. Extraordinary insights. Powerful inspiration."

http://www.ted.com/