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The Great Philosophers

6.0 IMDb tt1043128 1987 Talk

Bryan Magee traces the history of western philosophy over two millennia, discussing the ideas of the past with an expert guest or contemporary philosopher.

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Bryan Magee

Plato

Plato 43m The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ideas…

Aristotle

Aristotle 43m In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by noted Brown University professor…

Medieval Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy 43m This program examines the ideas of the medieval philosophic theologians, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford medieval philosopher Anthony…

Descartes

Descartes 43m I think, therefore I am. Rationalist philosopher and mathematician René Decartes, considered the father of modern philosophy, held…

Spinoza and Leibniz

Spinoza and Leibniz 43m The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by philosophy Anthony…

Locke and Berkeley

Locke and Berkeley 43m This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. Philosopher Michael Ayers of Oxford…

Hume

Hume 41m The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert…

Kant

Kant 42m Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities and powers…

Hegel and Marx

Hegel and Marx 43m In this program, contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discusses rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism and organicism at its…

Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer 42m This program examines the systematic, philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and its emphasis on infraconsciousness, or will, as…

Nietzsche

Nietzsche 43m Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "superman"; the…

Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism

Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism 45m In contrast to empiricist and rationalist traditions, existentialism proposes and orderless world, vaguely hostile, where people choose their…

The American pragmatists

The American pragmatists 42m C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey In this program, Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser discusses the nuances of…

Frege, Russell and Modern Logic

Frege, Russell and Modern Logic 42m Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and…

Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein 44m Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the…

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