Life, like philosophy, often seems difficult…

Or at least that’s what those say who have not yet discovered Benedetta Santini! The Italian educator and psychologist has made it her mission to combine the latest developments in psychology with the timeless wisdom of philosophy, turning great ideas into tangible examples of how we can live better, with greater fulfillment and success.
 
In the pages of this book, Santini takes us on a journey through the lives of 8 philosophers who changed Western thought, not only because they wrote great works, but because they dared to do something far rarer: to live differently. People who did not “fit” into the world around them, but dared to question what society imposed on them and to carve out their own unique path.

With her writing balancing inspiration and practicality, Benedetta Santini reminds us that our “home” is less a place than a journey: the ship that carried Plato to Sicily, the carriage for Schopenhauer’s great journey through Europe, the swallows Aristotle loved to watch. And the most effective means for navigating this journey is the mind — as long as we learn how to guide it skillfully.

Benedetta Santini is an educator and psychologist. After growing tired of hearing again and again phrases like “philosophy is useless” and “Hegel is too difficult,” in 2020 she founded the social media profile “Filosofia e Caffeina,” with the aim of spreading philosophical thought. She has been a speaker at TEDx events and is an influencer on social media.