From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical approaches to truth.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophy of solitude.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Persian Islamic philosopher Avicenna.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
Melvyn Bragg examines duty, a concept that has excited philosophers through history.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss influential British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
The history and legacy of classical Humanism, invented by Cicero.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the qualities of beauty and the history of aesthetics.
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke.
