Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Sartre, and a dozen other philosophers each get their own short segment in this School of Life series, with a single thinker's core ideas distilled into a few minutes at a time. Sartre's segment lays out his contempt for capitalism and his call to break free of "the shackles of greed" through radical freedom. Francois de La Rochefoucauld's episode leans on his own aphorisms, including his line that love, judged by its effects, "might very justly pass for hatred rather than kindness," and traces that bleakness back to a life spent in exile and poverty. Other segments cover Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Epicurus, the Stoics, and Augustine, each treated as a self-contained lesson rather than part of a continuous history of philosophy. The throughline across segments is practical: these are framed as working answers to how to handle love, conflict, ambition, and the difficulty of being human, drawn straight from each philosopher's own writing and arguments.