Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of key philosophers and their theories.
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Giles Fraser on moral character and Aristotle's Virtue ethics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss different ideas of morality.
Philosopher Angie Hobbs examines whether beautiful things are also moral.
Historian Simon Schaffer on whether evolutionary science explains the existence of beauty.
Mathematician Vicky Neale on the mathematics of beauty and the beauty of mathematics.
Philosopher Barry Smith on David Hume's ideas about cultivating good taste.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss different ideas of beauty.
Paul Broks brings neuroscience to the philosophical question of whether we have free will.
Theologian Giles Fraser believes true freedom comes from accepting constraints in life.
Barrister Harry Potter on John Stuart Mill's ideas about individual freedom and the state.
Angie Hobbs on Isaiah Berlin's distinction between positive and negative freedom.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about freedom.
