Season 1 episodes1987-09-06

Season 1

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

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Episodes

Season 1

Episode 1

Plato

43m

Episode 2

Aristotle

43m

Episode 3

Medieval Philosophy

43m

Episode 4

Descartes

43m

Episode 5

Spinoza and Leibniz

43m

Season 1

Season 1

Plato

Aristotle

Medieval Philosophy

Descartes

Spinoza and Leibniz

Locke and Berkeley

Hume

Kant

Hegel and Marx

Schopenhauer

Nietzsche

Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism

The American pragmatists

Frege, Russell and Modern Logic

Wittgenstein