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In Our Time: Philosophy podcast

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In Our Time: Philosophy

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  BBC Radio 4  

From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.

From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.

 

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#157

Socrates in Prison

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of... more

20 Feb 2025

50 MINS

50:50

20 Feb 2025

#156

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian-British economist Friedrich Hayek's The Road ... more

14 Nov 2024

53 MINS

53:16

14 Nov 2024

#155

Philippa Foot

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth ... more

13 Jun 2024

58 MINS

58:12

13 Jun 2024

#154

Panpsychism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that some kind of consciousness is present not ju... more

22 Feb 2024

53 MINS

53:59

22 Feb 2024

#153

Condorcet

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94), known as the Last of the P... more

08 Feb 2024

50 MINS

50:31

08 Feb 2024

#152

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929).... more

14 Dec 2023

55 MINS

55:32

14 Dec 2023

#151

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's ideas on what happiness means and how to live ... more

30 Nov 2023

52 MINS

52:01

30 Nov 2023

#150

Elizabeth Anscombe

In 1956 Oxford University awarded an honorary degree to the former US president Harry S. T... more

20 Jul 2023

54 MINS

54:45

20 Jul 2023

#149

Solon the Lawgiver

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was elected archon or chief magistrate of Athen... more

20 Apr 2023

51 MINS

51:20

20 Apr 2023

#148

Mercantilism

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, between the 16th and 18th centuries, Europe was domin... more

13 Apr 2023

57 MINS

57:33

13 Apr 2023

#147

Tycho Brahe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601)... more

02 Mar 2023

53 MINS

53:35

02 Mar 2023

#146

Rawls' Theory of Justice

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss A Theory of Justice by John Rawls (1921 - 2002) which has ... more

16 Feb 2023

1 HR 00 MINS

1:00:39

16 Feb 2023

#145

Plato's Atlantis

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's account of the once great island of Atlantis out t... more

20 Oct 2022

54 MINS

54:15

20 Oct 2022

#144

Hegel's Philosophy of History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) on hi... more

23 Jun 2022

52 MINS

52:25

23 Jun 2022

#143

Comenius

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670) known thr... more

16 Jun 2022

56 MINS

56:32

16 Jun 2022

#142

Charisma

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of charismatic authority developed by Max Weber (... more

14 Apr 2022

52 MINS

52:38

14 Apr 2022

#141

The Arthashastra

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit text the Arthashastra, regarded as on... more

31 Mar 2022

56 MINS

56:09

31 Mar 2022