2: Nietzsche | Genius of the Modern World

2: 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 a...

1: Marx | Genius of the Modern World

1: 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 looks...

3: Confucius | Genius of the Ancient World

3: 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 fundame...

2: Socrates | Genius of the Ancient World

2: 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 b...

7: Freedom vs Fit | Justice

7: 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 t...

6: The Good Citizen | Justice

6: 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 count...

5: What’s a Fair Start? | Justice

5: 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 wher...

4: A Lesson in Lying | Justice

4: 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 violation...

1: Buddha | Genius of the Ancient World

1: 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 investi...
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