BBC Radio 4 - Philosophy Podcast - From Altruism to Wittgenstein, philosophers, theories and key themes. - UPDATED: OCCASIONALLY - EPISODES AVAILABLE: INDEFINITELY
*****************
This web page was created by the braintumorguy, in Athens, GREECE.
please make a Small Donation, in my fight against my Brain Tumor which is Growing,
www.paypal.com my email account: braintumor2014@gmail.com
((( for more information about me, please visit my MEDICAL web page
https://sites.google.com/site/niactec/homeenglish )))
==========
23
2019-08-03 the website is under construction.
==========
****************
back to home page
https://sites.google.com/site/niactec/
****************
OR ...
P L E A S E J U M P D I R E C T L Y T O
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f0vzr/episodes/downloads?page=1
****************
OR ... CONTINUE WITH ME ! ...
BBC Radio 4 - Philosophy Podcast - the MP3s, the MP4s, and the YouTube Videos
==========
( YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE ... I WILL HAVE IT FINISHED WITHING 2-3 DAYS ! )
==========
****************
Episodes to download
THU 9 MAY 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Henri Bergson's ideas about our experience of time passing
Download
THU 14 MAR 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what it means to be oneself
Download
THU 7 FEB 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
Download
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
Choose your file
THU 22 NOV 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope - a weakness or a strength?
Download
THU 25 OCT 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mandeville's work on the public benefit of private vices.
Download
THU 14 JUN 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss republicanism, despotism and the separation of powers.
Download
THU 22 MAR 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of American democracy.
Download
THU 15 MAR 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.
Download
THU 1 MAR 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential ancient Chinese work on military strategy.
Download
THU 25 JAN 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Download
THU 21 SEP 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the difference between right and wrong, according to Kant.
Download
THU 29 JUN 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great works of political and ethical theory.
Download
THU 20 APR 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval scholar Roger Bacon.
Download
THU 23 FEB 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.
Download
THU 2 FEB 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher
Download
THU 12 JAN 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
Download
THU 22 SEP 2016
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
Download
THU 30 JUN 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of sovereignty.
Download
THU 19 MAY 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Muses in Greek mythology and after.
Download
THU 22 OCT 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, work and life of Simone de Beauvoir.
Download
THU 11 JUN 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
THU 19 MAR 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval Islamic thinker Al-Ghazali.
THU 19 FEB 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Adam Smith's economic treatise The Wealth of Nations.
THU 4 DEC 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Zen, a distinctively East Asian form of Buddhism.
THU 27 MAR 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
THU 20 MAR 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley.
****************
Episodes to download
THU 19 SEP 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
THU 6 DEC 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss influential British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
THU 15 NOV 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher and social activist Simone Weil.
THU 27 SEP 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological Argument for the existence of God.
THU 19 APR 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient philosophical school of Neoplatonism.
THU 22 MAR 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
THU 8 DEC 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
THU 10 NOV 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Continental and Analytic philosophical traditions.
THU 6 OCT 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the Scottish philosopher David Hume.
THU 16 DEC 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Daoism, the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.
THU 3 JUN 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke.
THU 13 MAY 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
THU 8 APR 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the essayist William Hazlitt.
THU 4 FEB 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
THU 14 JAN 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and influence of the Frankfurt School.
THU 10 DEC 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
THU 29 OCT 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.
****************
Episodes to download
THU 2 APR 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
THU 15 JAN 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau.
THU 2 OCT 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss classical Greek ideas in the Arabic and the Islamic world.
THU 20 MAR 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines the rich and radical ideas of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
THU 7 FEB 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Social Contract; a key idea in political philosophy.
THU 3 JAN 2008
The life ad work of the Algerian-French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus.
THU 31 MAY 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.
THU 3 MAY 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Dutch, Jewish and Christian Philosopher, Baruch Spinoza.
THU 23 NOV 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss philosophical and evolutionary arguments over altruism.
THU 5 OCT 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 12th century Islamic philosopher, Averroes.
THU 18 MAY 2006
The life and ideas of the 19th century political philosopher John Stuart Mill.
THU 2 MAR 2006
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of friendship; ‘a single soul dwelling in two bodies’.
THU 19 JAN 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
THU 5 JAN 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the importance of the oath in the Classical World.
THU 1 DEC 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
THU 20 OCT 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cynics, the performance artists of philosophy.
THU 14 JUL 2005
The life and ideas of Karl Marx who changed the world with his Communist Manifesto.
****************
Episodes to download
THU 19 MAY 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the qualities of beauty and the history of aesthetics.
THU 3 MAR 2005
Melvyn Bragg explore Stoicism, the most influential philosophy in the Ancient World.
THU 13 JAN 2005
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.
THU 9 DEC 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli.
THU 28 OCT 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses rhetoric; supported by Aristotle but reviled by Plato.
THU 7 OCT 2004
The life and work of French novelist, playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
THU 30 SEP 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines the cultural effect of the eighteenth century idea of Politeness.
THU 10 JUN 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines the 17th century idea that all knowledge arises from experience.
THU 6 MAY 2004
Melvyn Bragg explores what defines a hero, and their place in classical society.
THU 4 DEC 2003
The life, work and legacy of the 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
THU 13 NOV 2003
Melvyn Bragg examines duty, a concept that has excited philosophers through history.
THU 9 OCT 2003
Melvyn Bragg examines the 19th century Parisian philosophy of life lived for art.
THU 13 MAR 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss redemption, crucial for Judeo-Christian thought.
THU 5 DEC 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the emergence and impact of the Scottish Enlightenment.
THU 4 JUL 2002
Melvyn Bragg considers what it is to be free and how freedom became such a powerful value.
THU 9 MAY 2002
Melvyn Bragg investigates how our preoccupations about how to live have altered over time.
THU 28 FEB 2002
Melvyn Bragg explores the meaning and purpose of the philosophical concept of virtue.
THU 24 JAN 2002
Melvyn Bragg considers whether 'happiness' means living a life of pleasure or of virtue.
THU 18 OCT 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins of the most cherished form of government in the world.
THU 28 JUN 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests examine the 20th century philosophy of existentialism
THU 29 MAR 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines the western understanding of the Philosophy of Love since Plato.
****************
Episodes to download
THU 19 OCT 2000
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
THU 27 JAN 2000
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the relationship between democracy and capitalism.
THU 25 NOV 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
THU 18 NOV 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mankind has made as much moral as material progress.
THU 21 OCT 1999
Melvyn Bragg explores the concept of the individual from the Renaissance to today.
THU 7 OCT 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why we are as enthralled as ever by the idea of a Utopia.
THU 3 JUN 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines where the idea of a just war originated and if it can still exist.
THU 1 APR 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines how we judge good and evil in modern western civilisation.
THU 7 JAN 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
****************
****************
****************
==========