Why are you alive?

Key concepts and practices to turn your life into a work of art. Why are you alive? How should you live? The course examines freedom, meaning and community, and how to design projects that give a life its shape. Free, no sign-up.

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All 19 videos, 1 hour and 39 minutes. Twelve short lectures build the argument; then seven portraits of the philosophers it draws on, from Nietzsche to Foucault. Click any title and it plays here.

The course

12 videos

The philosophers

7 videos


There is also a coach for these questions: talk to the daimon — it listens first, draws on the course where that helps, and ends with a page to sleep on.

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