What happens when you die? What is the purpose of your existence? What is the purpose of the humanity?

In the actual times answers to these questions are typically answered by religions. But, what if you are not satisfied with those answers? What if you think that there should be more than that? Philosophy is your thing then.

Philosophy? What?! That sounds like a very difficult topic, hard to understand. Well it’s actually, and that’s why this book is so good.

“Learning to live: A user’s manual” is a book written by French philosopher called Luc Ferry, and is focused on introducing regular people to this topic.

The book explains the history of religion and how they got to the place they are today, it explains what was there before religion (Stoicism) and what it meant. It also explains what philosophy is and how it can teach us how to live.

The book also touches topics like death, existence and spirituality.

Something I liked a lot about this book is its simplicity and straightforward explanations; the author really makes an effort on this, always trying to keep clear so abstracts topics like existence of self, god and death.

If you like this type of topics and you’re interested in learning them, this book is a perfect first step.

I spent hours researching for a good introductory book to philosophy and this was the best I could found, so if you have other options feel free to share them in your comment.

I give a 4 of 5 stars to this book. Enjoy.