Alain de Botton || Love, Sex, Religion and Happiness

The Psychology Podcast

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Modern day philosopher Alain de Botton has become world renown for his ability to provide compelling real world answers to some of life’s biggest questions. For this episode of The Psychology Podcast, we cover the philosophy and science of a range of topics, including what it means to have a “normal” relationship, the origins of the desire for religion, the pervasive lack of systematic thinking about happiness, how the illusion of perfection creates problems, existential crises and much more. We get a bit cheeky with a high brow discussion of the human condition. Fair warning that this episode does include some discussion of sex and pornography as they relate to well-being. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.5	you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. Each episode will feature
0:09.2	a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of
0:12.4	yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.7	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.8	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. cast. So today I'm really excited to have Alan de Botan on the show.
0:43.0	Alan is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a philosophy of modern life.
0:48.0	He's written on love, travel, architecture, and literature.
0:51.0	His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries.
0:54.3	Alan also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to
0:58.5	a new vision of education.
1:00.4	Alan's latest book is The Course of love and meditation on modern relationships.
1:04.5	Thanks for chatting with me today.
1:05.9	Thank you so much, thanks for having me.
1:07.9	Well, I don't even know where to begin with someone like you.
1:11.4	The topics you study are about as striking to the core of human
1:15.9	existence as possible. Like you don't really mess around, do you? Like, oh, I'm going to do, you know, study like this one archaic philosophical idea and
1:24.7	nitpick it to death instead you're like I'm going to pick the grandest
1:28.0	questions of human existence and give people insight into them.
1:31.3	Yeah that's a nice way of putting it I I mean, I guess I feel that we're all short of time,
1:35.8	and I'm a kind of sort of practical guy, and I want the questions that I look at
1:41.0	to have real world applications and they often come in me from pretty urgent
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