We finish high-school and know more about math than we do of ourselves. Yet knowing ourselves is more important than algebra. Current education does not create free, creative and wise individuals, but workers for the requirements of the market. Most universities give you an education that will supply you with a career – not a good life. But careers, as the etymology of the word betrays, are roads for carts - not for human beings.

I tried learning more about the good life by studying the discipline that claims to study it, Philosophy, yet I encountered the same problem. By the time I finished my BA and MA in Philosophy I realized universities prepare you for becoming a professor of philosophy, not a philosopher. Doing a PhD lost its appeal.

Most professors of philosophy teach you how to analyze the good life instead of living it. But mistaking conceptual dissection for philosophy requires you to kill her in the process. That is what most professors have been doing the past century: Killing philosophy and making a living being the anatomists of thought. No wonder people lost interest in philosophy, since hardly anyone wants to be solely an anatomist of thought - yet everyone wants to live a good life.

The word “philosopher” means “lover of wisdom”. But it is not enough for a philosopher to love wisdom. For wisdom is a woman; she will not give herself to you just because you want her. You have to learn to seduce her; because a life of unrequited love withers the soul and makes thoughts dry and sterile.

To seduce wisdom back to philosophy and into people who dare to seek it - that is my purpose.