Alain de Botton - Valentine's Day - BBC iPlayer - The Culture Show 20102011 Episode 18

[ghostofbellstar]

What is a philosopher then?

[SatounoKumo]

oh come on he's not a philosopher, he is a writer and a philosophy enthusiast

[teamcrumb]

@SatounoKumo philosophy: study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. something Alain does innately. he is a living breathing philosopher. the difference between him and maybe who u consider to be a real philosopher is he hasn't alighted upon one particular ideology other than a wonderful form of humanism, in as much as he hasn't formed a zenith to his thinking. he is alive and interesting, that is all.

[SatounoKumo]

@teamcrumb I think he is a philosophy theoretical. you have to have your own explanations on things to be accomplished. he is a commenter. I can accept him as a philosopher if you like but I would call him a pop philosopher. he is also kind of bourgeois so sometimes it seems he knows life by books only