This series of incisive intellectual conversations from the BBC archives presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts of western philosophy through 15 of its greatest thinkers. Each program features series creator, world-renowned author, professor, and philosophy specialist Bryan Magee, who discusses the philosophers’ ideas within the context of their times and intellectual accomplishments with other distinguished experts. 15-part series, 43-48 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : Plato | Aristotle | Medieval Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas | Descartes | Spinoza and Leibniz | Locke and Berkeley | Hume | Kant | Hegel and Marx | Schopenhauer | Nietzsche | Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism | The American Pragmatists: C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey | Frege, Russell and Modern Logic | Wittgenstein

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