Is happiness harder than fun? The summer holiday is in view at last and most of us are looking forward to months of mindless fun. But is that the truest path to human contentment?
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It’s over!: Around 650,000 British teenagers have taken GSCEs this year and will get their results on 22 August. Glossary
Michel de Montaigne - A Frenchman who lived in Bordeaux and is credited with inventing the essay as a type of writing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - An Austrian-British philosopher and mathematician most famous for his work on language. Some consider him the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century.
Jacques Derrida - A controversial French philosopher, born in 1930.
Confucius - A Chinese philosopher who lived around 500 BC. He founded Confucianism, which focuses on being merciful, conscientious and humane. It also emphasises obedience and the importance of obeying the hierarchies in society. For example, showing respect to your parents.
Disposition - A person's character or mood.
Karl Marx - A 19th-Century German economist and philosopher who argued that capitalism was doomed to collapse.
Self-actualisation - A psychological concept in which an individual reaches their full potential.
Aristotle - A student of Plato, tutor to Alexander the Great and the father of political philosophy.
Zhuang Zi - An influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th Century BC.
Ego - A person's sense of self-importance.