September 6, 1987 • 43m
The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ideas initial...Read more
September 13, 1987 • 43m
In this program, the far-reaching philosophical ideas of Plato's star pupil are examined by noted Brown University professor Marth...Read more
September 20, 1987 • 43m
This program examines the ideas of the medieval philosophic theologians, particularly St. Thomas Aquinas. Oxford medieval philosop...Read more
October 4, 1987 • 43m
I think, therefore I am. Rationalist philosopher and mathematician René Decartes, considered the father of modern philosophy, held...Read more
October 11, 1987 • 43m
The ideas of rationalist philosophers Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz are examined in this program by philosophy Anthony Quin...Read more
October 18, 1987 • 43m
This program examines the philosophies of British empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley. Philosopher Michael Ayers of Oxford ...Read more
October 25, 1987 • 41m
The leading philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume, is the subject of this program. In it, expert John Passmore of ...Read more
November 1, 1987 • 42m
Contemporary philosopher Geoffrey Warnock discusses the philosophy of anti-empiricist Immanuel Kant, and his view that activities ...Read more
November 8, 1987 • 43m
In this program, contemporary philosopher Peter Singer discusses rational Hegelian philosophy, and the historicism and organicism ...Read more
November 22, 1987 • 42m
This program examines the systematic, philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and its emphasis on infraconsciousness, or wi...Read more
November 29, 1987 • 43m
Vehement repudiation of Christian and liberal ethics; the detestation of democratic ideals; the celebration of the "superman"; the...Read more
December 6, 1987 • 45m
In contrast to empiricist and rationalist traditions, existentialism proposes and orderless world, vaguely hostile, where people c...Read more
December 13, 1987 • 42m
C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey In this program, Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser discusses the nuances of...Read more
December 20, 1987 • 42m
Bryan Magee talks to A.J. Ayer about Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell; specifically about their published works and their impact...Read more
December 27, 1987 • 44m
Bryan Magee talks to John Searle about the legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein; ranging from his early work, the Tractatus, to his posth...Read more