A Ph. D. in Happiness
Philosophers are kind of, by definition, gloomy. Just listing them makes me depressed: Nietzche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger. Leibnitz is the single one who springs to mind who used reason to arrive at some kind of hopefulness – - and Voltaire burned him to a cinder in Candide. Voltaire of course was one of the greatest [...]