An inspiring exchange with great thinkers about the art of living well. How can we achieve a good life? And how can our thinking support us in this? These are the questions that ultimately concern each of us—and they are the fundamental questions of any practical philosophy. In their refreshingly down-to-earth compendium, Katharina Ceming and Christa Spannbauer demonstrate how we can practice and cultivate a positive mindset. To bring the treasures of Western and Eastern philosophy closer to readers, they must be translated into our thinking and language—a task that the authors master with both profound knowledge of the subject and linguistic ease. Encounters include Diogenes and Seneca, Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius, Laozi, Confucius and Buddha, Arthur Schopenhauer and Immanuel Kant, Erich Fromm and Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre.