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Streetphilosophy roams the streets of Berlin to find answers to philosophical questions. In this episode Ronja von Rönne asks: What is happiness? How do I please myself while also pleasing others? And how can I realise my desires?

Streetphilosophy

Roams the streets of Berlin to find answers to philosophical questions. How can we be happy and fulfill our desires?

Happiness and Hedonism

A philosopher of complexity, a sociologist of cultural practices and one of the first to address ecological issues, Edgar Morin has been a major intellectual figure in France from the post-war period up to the present day. Through extensive archive footage, this documentary, coming in the year of the philosopher's 100th birthday, tells the story of a fruitful life dedicated to humanist thought .

Coming in the year of the philosopher's 100th birthday, this documentary tells the story of a fruitful life dedicated to humanist thought .

Edgar Morin - Journal of a Life

Always imagining the worst can be an effective way to cover our backs, but it can also paralyse us. But what better way to overcome despair than through laughter or artistic creation?

In a world gone mad, is pessimism the only rational response? 

Pessimism: It Won't Work Anyway!

There is erotic love, familial love, love of a city and love of humanity. Raphaël Enthoven debates with Laure Barillas, specialist in the philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Luc-Thomas Somme, a Dominican priest.

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Fifty Shades... of Love

The mask is both a symbol of altruism and civicism, and of personal liberty curtailed. Raphaël Enthoven explores its many paradoxes with the philosophy researcher Elsa Novelli and the Secretary of State Sophie Cluzel in charge of People with Disabilities.

The mask is both a symbol of altruism and civicism, but also of personal liberty curtailed

Behind the Mask

Why, in the era of twitter and other social media, do we get angry so often? Why are we outraged by events in the world today? Raphaël Enthoven debates the notion of outrage with professor Laurent de Sutter and Cécile Duflot, director of Oxfam France.

Why, in the era of twitter and other social media, do we get angry so often?

Outrage!

Why do people develop fetishes? One person gets a thrill from leather outfits, another loves licking feet, or obsessively collecting shoes.  Are fetishes in our nature? Or are they perversions that we should free ourselves from?

Are fetishes in our nature? Or are they perversions that we should free ourselves from?

Find your Fetish!

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What is home? Is it where we grew up? Or is it in the stories and memories we share? Ronja von Rönne searches for answers by meeting a fisherwoman, an Iranian carpet-seller and storyteller as well as the musician Dillon.

Where Do You Feel at Home?

Live your Desires! But How?

Pragmatism is winning the day. Is it necessary to adapt so much to the realities of life that you give up on your dreams? Or is it the only sensible thing to do? 

Is giving up on your dreams the only sane course of action? 

Stop Dreaming!

What are we really looking for when we travel abroad on holiday? New horizons and new experiences? Or just a great photo for Instagram? Ronja von Rönne asks whether we really need to go to the other side of the world to get the full benefits of travel.

Travel the World!

Should we get rid of private property in order to be free? Streetphilosophy explores our paradoxical relationship with material possessions.

Streetphilosophy explores our paradoxical relationship with material possessions.

All Mine!

Leave behind society, go out into nature and find again your true wild self? In our controlled societies, the idea is tempting. Ronja von Rönne goes to meet a biker gang, for whom being wild is a way of life.

Be Wild!

The pandemic has stopped some people from attending the funerals of their loved ones, or forced them into low key, socially distanced affairs. Raphaël Enthoven explores the psychological impact on missing out on those grief rituals. But if they don't help lessen the pain, what is the point of them? Grief therapist Sophie Poupard-Bonnet and philosopher Vincent Delecroix explore what it means to grieve in a time of coronavirus.

Raphaël Enthoven explores the psychological impact of socially distanced funerals on grief

Does Consoling the Bereaved Even Work?

Raphaël Enthoven explores the notion of black identity with Tania de Montaigne, author of "Assignation - Black people do not exist", and Lilian Thuram, former footballer and author of "White Thought".

Raphaël Enthoven explores the notion of black identity

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