Season - Episode
1
Season 1 Sep 06, 1987
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1 - 1Plato Sep 06, 1987 -
1 - 2Aristotle Sep 13, 1987 -
1 - 3Medieval Philosophy Sep 20, 1987 -
1 - 4Descartes Oct 04, 1987 -
1 - 5Spinoza and Leibniz Oct 11, 1987 -
1 - 6Locke and Berkeley Oct 18, 1987 -
1 - 7Hume Oct 25, 1987 -
1 - 8Kant Nov 01, 1987 -
1 - 9Hegel and Marx Nov 08, 1987 -
1 - 10Schopenhauer Nov 22, 1987 -
1 - 11Nietzsche Nov 29, 1987 -
1 - 12Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism Dec 06, 1987 -
1 - 13The American pragmatists Dec 13, 1987 -
1 - 14Frege, Russell and Modern Logic Dec 20, 1987 -
1 - 15Wittgenstein Dec 27, 1987
Overview
The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato's ideas initially as extensions of those of his teacher, Socrates, Burnyeat explains the development and content of Plato's original; doctrines of knowledge as virtue, the immortality and tripartite division of the soul, and the theory of forms (ideas). Plato's political philosophy is discussed within the context of the notion of the ideal state—a political utopia ruled by philosopher kings.
Year 1987
Studio BBC One
Director Bryan Magee
Crew
Popularity 0.7419
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