When Philosophy Becomes Therapy
Swiss-British philosophy writer and television presenter Alain de Botton, 19th January 2012. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Swiss-British philosophy writer and television presenter Alain de Botton, 19th January 2012. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Philosophy has earned a reputation as a complicated, inaccessible, and irrelevant pursuit, consigned mostly to old white men in wood-paneled offices. It’s vaguely associated with asking the kinds of big questions—Do we exist? What does life mean? Is there such thing as right or wrong?—that can seem frustrating, impractical, and, perhaps, pointless.

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