03: The Dissent of Karl Marx | The Age of Uncertainty

03: The Dissent of Karl Marx | The Age of Uncertainty

Economics | BBC Two | 1977 | 53'59''

JK Galbraith investigates the impact of Karl Marx on our economic interpretation of society. The life and work of Marx ...

02: Nietzsche | Genius of the Modern World

02: Nietzsche | Genius of the Modern World

Nietzsche | BBC Four | 2016 | 59'29''

Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of great modern thinkers. Nietzsche's uncompromising ideas smashed the safe presuppositions and ...

01: Marx | Genius of the Modern World

01: Marx | Genius of the Modern World

Marx | BBC Four | 2016 | 58'55''

Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world. Drawing on expert opinion and new evidence, she look...

03: Confucius | Genius of the Ancient World

03: Confucius | Genius of the Ancient World

Confucius | BBC Four | 2015 | 59'07''

In the final episode, Bettany travels to China on the trail of Confucius, a great sage of Chinese history whose ideas have fundam...

02: Socrates | Genius of the Ancient World

02: Socrates | Genius of the Ancient World

Philosophers | BBC Four | 2015 | 59'14''

Historian Bettany Hughes is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick thinker Socrates, who was executed for his ...

07: Freedom vs Fit | Justice

07: Freedom vs Fit | Justice

Aristotle | BBC Four | 2011 | 27'51''

Michael Sandel's lecture looks at the issue of individual rights and the freedom to choose, and he addresses one of the most glaring objections ...

06: The Good Citizen | Justice

06: The Good Citizen | Justice

Aristotle | BBC Four | 2011 | 28'13''

Michael Sandel's lecture on the philosophy of justice links Aristotle's belief that the purpose of politics is to promote the virtue of a coun...

05: What’s a Fair Start? | Justice

05: What’s a Fair Start? | Justice

Philosophers | BBC Four | 2011 | 25'39''

Michael Sandel's lecture looks at John Rawls, who argued that for a fair social system one must start from an imaginary position whe...

04: A Lesson in Lying | Justice

04: A Lesson in Lying | Justice

Kant | BBC Four | 2011 | 23'50''

Harvard professor Michael Sandel examines Immanuel Kant's stringent theory of morality, which says that telling any type of lie is a violatio...

01: Buddha | Genius of the Ancient World

01: Buddha | Genius of the Ancient World

Buddha | BBC Four | 2015 | 59'09''

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy. To begin, she invest...
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