In Our Time: Philosophy

In Our Time: Philosophy

135 episodes

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


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Philippa Foot

Published: June 13, 2024, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 12 seconds

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Panpsychism

Published: Feb. 22, 2024, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 59 seconds

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Condorcet

Published: Feb. 8, 2024, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 31 seconds

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 32 seconds

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 1 second

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Elizabeth Anscombe

Published: July 20, 2023, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds

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Solon the Lawgiver

Published: April 20, 2023, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 20 seconds

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Mercantilism

Published: April 13, 2023, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 33 seconds

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Tycho Brahe

Published: March 2, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 35 seconds

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Rawls' Theory of Justice

Published: Feb. 16, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 seconds

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Plato's Atlantis

Published: Oct. 20, 2022, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 15 seconds

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Hegel's Philosophy of History

Published: June 23, 2022, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 25 seconds

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Comenius

Published: June 16, 2022, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 32 seconds

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Charisma

Published: April 14, 2022, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds

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The Arthashastra

Published: March 31, 2022, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 9 seconds

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In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds

Published: March 4, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute

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Walter Benjamin

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 32 seconds

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Plato's Gorgias

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 3 seconds

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Iris Murdoch

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 25 seconds

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Kant's Copernican Revolution

Published: June 3, 2021, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 17 seconds

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Marcus Aurelius

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 36 seconds

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Mary Astell

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 34 seconds

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Deism

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 17 seconds

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Rousseau on Education

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 41 seconds

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Bergson and Time

Published: May 9, 2019, 9:14 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 20 seconds

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Authenticity

Published: March 14, 2019, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 33 seconds

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Aristotle's Biology

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 10:19 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds

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Hope

Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 10:57 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 1 second

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The Fable of the Bees

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 10:35 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 42 seconds

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Montesquieu

Published: June 14, 2018, 10:02 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds

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Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Published: March 22, 2018, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 51 seconds

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Augustine's Confessions

Published: March 15, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 55 seconds

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Sun Tzu and The Art of War

Published: March 1, 2018, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 23 seconds

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Cicero

Published: Jan. 25, 2018, 12:36 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 16 seconds

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Kant's Categorical Imperative

Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 11:08 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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Plato's Republic

Published: June 29, 2017, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 43 seconds

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Roger Bacon

Published: April 20, 2017, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 33 seconds

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Seneca the Younger

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 25 seconds

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Hannah Arendt

Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 11:10 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 17 seconds

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Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 11:34 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 3 seconds

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Zeno's Paradoxes

Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 10:17 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 30 seconds

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Sovereignty

Published: June 30, 2016, 9:45 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 21 seconds

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The Muses

Published: May 19, 2016, 10:53 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds

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Simone de Beauvoir

Published: Oct. 22, 2015, 11:39 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes

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Utilitarianism

Published: June 11, 2015, 10:03 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds

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Al-Ghazali

Published: March 19, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 12 seconds

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The Wealth of Nations

Published: Feb. 19, 2015, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 5 seconds

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Phenomenology

Published: Jan. 22, 2015, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 33 seconds

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Truth

Published: Dec. 18, 2014, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Zen

Published: Dec. 4, 2014, 11:40 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 8 seconds

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The Philosophy of Solitude

Published: June 19, 2014, 10:20 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 6 seconds

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Weber's The Protestant Ethic

Published: March 27, 2014, 11:50 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 40 seconds

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Bishop Berkeley

Published: March 20, 2014, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 29 seconds

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Plato's Symposium

Published: Jan. 2, 2014, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 11 seconds

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Ordinary Language Philosophy

Published: Nov. 7, 2013, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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Pascal

Published: Sept. 19, 2013, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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Epicureanism

Published: Feb. 7, 2013, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds

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Bertrand Russell

Published: Dec. 6, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 15 seconds

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Simone Weil

Published: Nov. 15, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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The Ontological Argument

Published: Sept. 27, 2012, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 11 seconds

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Scepticism

Published: July 5, 2012, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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Al-Kindi

Published: June 28, 2012, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 53 seconds

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Neoplatonism

Published: April 19, 2012, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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Moses Mendelssohn

Published: March 22, 2012, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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Heraclitus

Published: Dec. 8, 2011, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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The Continental-Analytic Split

Published: Nov. 10, 2011, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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David Hume

Published: Oct. 6, 2011, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Malthusianism

Published: June 22, 2011, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 1 second

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Cogito Ergo Sum

Published: April 28, 2011, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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Free Will

Published: March 10, 2011, 10:23 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Maimonides

Published: Feb. 15, 2011, 12:33 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 13 seconds

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Aristotle's Poetics

Published: Jan. 27, 2011, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes

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Daoism

Published: Dec. 15, 2010, 3:57 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds

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Logic

Published: Oct. 21, 2010, 9:48 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Edmund Burke

Published: June 3, 2010, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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William James's 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'

Published: May 13, 2010, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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William Hazlitt

Published: April 8, 2010, 8 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 55 seconds

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Ibn Khaldun

Published: Feb. 4, 2010, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 15 seconds

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The Frankfurt School

Published: Jan. 14, 2010, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 3 seconds

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Published: Dec. 31, 2009, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 59 seconds

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Pythagoras

Published: Dec. 10, 2009, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 47 seconds

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Schopenhauer

Published: Oct. 29, 2009, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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St Thomas Aquinas

Published: Sept. 17, 2009, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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Logical Positivism

Published: July 2, 2009, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Baconian Science

Published: April 2, 2009, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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The School of Athens

Published: March 26, 2009, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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Thoreau and the American Idyll

Published: Jan. 15, 2009, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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The Consolations of Philosophy

Published: Jan. 1, 2009, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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Aristotle's Politics

Published: Nov. 6, 2008, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds

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Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

Published: Oct. 9, 2008, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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The Translation Movement

Published: Oct. 2, 2008, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Miracles

Published: Sept. 25, 2008, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 16 seconds

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Materialism

Published: April 24, 2008, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 5 seconds

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Kierkegaard

Published: March 20, 2008, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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The Social Contract

Published: Feb. 7, 2008, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

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Camus

Published: Jan. 3, 2008, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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Avicenna

Published: Nov. 8, 2007, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

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Guilt

Published: Nov. 1, 2007, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Socrates

Published: Sept. 27, 2007, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 2 seconds

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Common Sense Philosophy

Published: June 21, 2007, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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Ockham's Razor

Published: May 31, 2007, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Spinoza

Published: May 3, 2007, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Popper

Published: Feb. 8, 2007, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 9 seconds

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Anarchism

Published: Dec. 7, 2006, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds

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Altruism

Published: Nov. 23, 2006, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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Averroes

Published: Oct. 5, 2006, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds

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Mill

Published: May 18, 2006, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds

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Friendship

Published: March 2, 2006, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 46 seconds

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Relativism

Published: Jan. 19, 2006, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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The Oath

Published: Jan. 5, 2006, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 11 seconds

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Hobbes

Published: Dec. 1, 2005, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Pragmatism

Published: Nov. 17, 2005, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 1 second

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Cynicism

Published: Oct. 20, 2005, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 9 seconds

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Marx

Published: July 14, 2005, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 3 seconds

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Beauty

Published: May 19, 2005, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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Abelard and Heloise

Published: May 5, 2005, 8 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds

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Stoicism

Published: March 4, 2005, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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The Mind/Body Problem

Published: Jan. 13, 2005, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 8 seconds

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Machiavelli and the Italian City States

Published: Dec. 9, 2004, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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Jung

Published: Dec. 2, 2004, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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Rhetoric

Published: Oct. 14, 2004, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds

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The Han Synthesis

Published: Oct. 14, 2004, 8 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds

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Sartre

Published: Oct. 7, 2004, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 5 seconds

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Politeness

Published: Sept. 30, 2004, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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Empiricism

Published: June 10, 2004, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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Heroism

Published: May 6, 2004, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 19 seconds

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Wittgenstein

Published: Dec. 4, 2003, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds

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Duty

Published: Nov. 13, 2003, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds

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Bohemianism

Published: Oct. 9, 2003, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 15 seconds

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The Art of War

Published: June 12, 2003, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds

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Originality

Published: March 20, 2003, 9 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds

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Redemption

Published: March 13, 2003, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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The Enlightenment in Scotland

Published: Dec. 5, 2002, 9 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Freedom

Published: July 4, 2002, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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The Soul

Published: June 6, 2002, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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The Examined Life

Published: May 9, 2002, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 5 seconds

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Virtue

Published: Feb. 28, 2002, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Happiness

Published: Jan. 24, 2002, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

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Confucius

Published: Nov. 1, 2001, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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Democracy

Published: Oct. 18, 2001, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Existentialism

Published: June 28, 2001, 8 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 56 seconds

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Evil

Published: May 3, 2001, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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The Philosophy of Love

Published: March 29, 2001, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Humanism

Published: Feb. 8, 2001, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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Nihilism

Published: Nov. 16, 2000, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds

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Laws of Nature

Published: Oct. 19, 2000, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 5 seconds

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Economic Rights

Published: Jan. 27, 2000, 9 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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Consciousness

Published: Nov. 25, 1999, 9 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Progress

Published: Nov. 18, 1999, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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The Individual

Published: Oct. 21, 1999, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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Utopia

Published: Oct. 7, 1999, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes

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Just War

Published: June 3, 1999, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds

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Good and Evil

Published: April 1, 1999, 8 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 17 seconds

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Feminism

Published: Jan. 7, 1999, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds

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Cultural Rights in the 20th Century

Published: Dec. 10, 1998, 9 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds

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