The Great Philosophers

1987

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

Seasons & Episodes

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Plato

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Schopenhauer

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Nietzsche

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S01 E12 0h 45m

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Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism

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The American pragmatists

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S01 E14 0h 42m

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Frege, Russell and Modern Logic

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Wittgenstein

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Aristotle

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Medieval Philosophy

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Descartes

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Spinoza and Leibniz

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S01 E06 0h 43m

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Locke and Berkeley

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S01 E07 0h 41m

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Hume

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S01 E08 0h 42m

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Kant

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Hegel and Marx