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'School of Life': Artists, writers and intellectuals launch open London ...

A new 'university' was launched in London, designed to help busy people appreciate the finer things in life, like art, books and travel.

The 'School of Life' is led by a group of artists, writers and intellectuals and based in a small shop in Bloomsbury, central London. It describes itself as a "chemist for the mind" that plans to dispense "cultural solutions to everyday ailments".

"The School of Life is open to everyone seeking intellectual and personal adventure," the school says on its website. "Our audiences, like our faculty, are characterized by curiosity, sociability, open-mindedness and an appetite for life."

The school has a large freelance faculty, including philosopher Alain de Botton and Sophie Howarth, a former curator at London's Tate Modern gallery. Faculty members are "willing to meet with you for an hour of chat in exchange for a small fee," the website explains.

Later this year, first six-week courses will be offered. These include instruction in life, love, work, family and politics. "We draw on ideas from philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature and art. We discover what the likes of Plato, Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Freud had to say about compassion, empathy and self-love," the instructors promise. Each course costs 195 pounds ($390).

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