Description

In his engaging audiobook, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient.

This audiobook is an invitation to a dream school with a faculty that includes 12 of the greatest philosophers from the ancient world, sharing their lessons in happiness, resilience and much more. Discover how soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, anarchists and others use these ideas today. Lively and powerful, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, for love, for life.

'Instructive and thought-provoking ... shows philosophy is not just for stuffy classrooms.'
Financial Times

'A revelation.' -The Observer

'This wonderful book shows how modern psychology is consistent with the best that was thought and known in the Ancient World ... also beautifully written.' -Lord Richard Layard, author

'An important book, because it reminds us philosophy is not just about analysis. It's also about the good life.' -Matthew Syed, Times books of the year