Philosophy in 40 Ideas

1. Know yourself
2. Philo-sophia
3. Eudaimonia
4. Democracy
5. Eros and philia
6. ‘What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears’
7. Peccatum originale
8. ‘Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies’
9. ‘All our unhappiness comes from our inability to sit alone in our room’
10. Sub specie aeternitatis
11. Machiavellianism
12. Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. [‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’]
13. The Hegelian dialectic of history
14. ‘God is dead’
15. The Sublime
16. The Wealth of Nations
17. Existential Angst
18. Bad faith
19. The Myth of Sisyphus
20. Being and Time
21. The Vinegar-Tasters
22. Zhōng/Loyalty
23. The Five Virtues
24. The life of Confucius
25. Life is suffering
26. Mettā/Benevolence
27. Guanyin
28. Wu Wei/Not making an effort
29. Water as wisdom
30. Bamboo as wisdom
31. Kintsugi/Hope in brokenness
32. Wabi sabi/Loving the imperfect
33. Gongshi/Spirit stones
34. Yinshi/A recluse
35. Ikebana/Flower arranging
36. Tea ceremony
37. Haiku
38. Gravel raking
39. Mono No Aware/The pathos of things
40. Shufa/Calligraphy