In Our Time: Philosophy

Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and James Warren join Melvyn Bragg to discuss Epicureanism, the system of philosophy based on ... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, work and legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. There is little doubt that he was a to... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Karl Marx. "Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains", "Reli... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins of democracy. In the Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln called it “Governmen... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the problems of consciousness, one of the greatest mysteries facing science and philosop... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the concept of Utopia. Both the idea of, and the longing for a perfect society have been... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the creative force of originality. How far is it to do with origins, how far with the co... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influential British philosopher Bertrand Russell. Born in 1872 into an aristocra... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the concept of the individual. The Renaissance gave birth to the concept ... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological Argument. In the eleventh century St Anselm of Canterbury proposed t... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests begin a new series of the programme with a discussion of the French polymath Blaise Pascal. ... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality - A Polemic, which he published in 1887 towards... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss beauty and its qualities."Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth,... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great nineteenth century political philosopher John Stuart Mill. He believed that, '... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how, in the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) sought to define the difference bet... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether religion can still be seen as a way of interpreting and judging good and evil in... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of a just war. There were theories about a justified or noble war before the bi... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anarchism and why its political ideas became synonymous with chaos and disorder. Pierre ... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the extraordinary mind of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. In 1907 Sigmund Freud met a... Read more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 17th century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes who argued: "During the time ... Read more