Based on the Catalan format Merlí by Hector Lozano, produced by Veranda for TV3 Lagardère Studios Distribution. Dante Balestra is a philosophy teacher who, after many years away, returns to Rome to care for his son Simone. Charming and unconventional, the teacher takes a class at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School, where he applies his unconventional teaching methods and develops a very special relationship with his students, including Simone. But his approach quickly leads to his personal and professional lives becoming confused, and the return from the past of Anita, a former flame of his and now the mother of Manuel, the class "black sheep," makes things even more complicated.
Socrates
Roland barthes
Kant
Plato
Aristotle
Giordano bruno
Michel foucault
Guy debord
Stuart mill
Schopenhauer
Rousseau
Nietzsche
Heraclitus: everything flows
Bergson: time
Heidegger: authentic existence
David hume: beauty
Montaigne: who we are
Thoreau: a planet to save
Freud: fathers
Kierkegaard: what am i doing here?
Leibniz: remorse and regrets
Horace: carpe diem
Sartre: freedom of choice
Epicurus: between life and death
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