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| S1 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 7.9 | 9.0 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.9 |
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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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Season 11987
8.41491511h 15m
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Plato | 8.4 | 12 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Aristotle | 7.8 | 15 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Medieval Philosophy | 7.8 | 10 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Descartes | 8.2 | 9 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Spinoza and Leibniz | 8.7 | 8 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Locke and Berkeley | 8.1 | 8 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Hume | 8.8 | 10 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | Kant | 8.4 | 8 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 9 | Hegel and Marx | 8.9 | 10 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 10 | Schopenhauer | 7.9 | 12 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 11 | Nietzsche | 9.0 | 11 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 12 | Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism | 9.1 | 10 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 13 | The American Pragmatists | 7.8 | 6 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 14 | Frege, Russell and Modern Logic | 8.4 | 10 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 15 | Wittgenstein | 8.9 | 10 | 45 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Bryan Magee Self - Presenter
John Searle Self
Peter Singer Self
A.J. Ayer Self
Bernard Williams Self
Martha Nussbaum Self
Anthony Kenny Self
Hubert Dreyfus Self
John Passmore Self
J.P. Stern Self
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