Philosophy: Egypt, Greece, Rome & Western

An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon

Identifies King David as Pharaoh Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty and Davids son Solomon as Pharaoh Amenhotep, Tuthmosiss successor

In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: Know yourself. Self-knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions particularly around love and work.

A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written

A dictionary is a guide to a language. This dictionary is for the distinctive language that The School of Life speaks: that of emotions. It is an alphabetical selection of some 200 words and phrases that shed light on our feelings about ourselves, other people, and the workings of the modern world.

Who do you think you are? Thats a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods.