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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The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts video series was recorded in 1971 above Muir Woods, California, and in 1972 aboard the ferryboat the SS Vallejo in Sausalito. Produced by his son Mark and directed by long-time archivist Henry Jacobs, the series explores core philosophical themes that spawned over Watts' career.
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German talkshow hosted by Richard David Precht, a well known german philosopher and publisher, in which he speaks with a guest about a topic from culture, science, economy or politics in every episode
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
A 13-part documentary series by Chris Marker examining how ancient Greek ideas continue to shape modern Western thought. Each episode centers on a single Greek word—such as “democracy,” “philosophy,” or “mythology”—through conversations filmed in cities around the world. Combining symposium-style discussions with archival footage and visual motifs of the owl, Marker creates an expansive reflection on the enduring legacy of Greece.
What do we need to live a happy life? Follow Ronja von Rönne, author and self-proclaimed sceptic, as she explores this age-old question by meeting people with fascinating or surprising answers. A unique insight into the different mindsets and strategies that people employ to find happiness.
In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
When a broke dimwitted slacker is hired by a mad philosopher to babysit his pampered pooch, he's thrown into a world of bizarre incidents and off-kilter life lessons that could turn his dead-end existence around.
Riad Abd Rabbo is a philosophy teacher who collides with the materialistic, utilitarian reality that is completely different from the values he has learnt and teaches his students, such as truth, goodness and beauty, and when he fails to fix what is wrong around him, the philosophy of Al-Dardiri, an old thinker who those around him believe has lost his mind, is confirmed. Riad resorts to the same logic as El Dardiri, who died waiting for aliens to help him come up with solutions to save the world from possible and very near doom.
He’s surly, unorthodox, unapologetically blunt, and he’s about to change your life. Meet the new philosophy teacher, Merlí, who will help his students view the world in a whole new light, both in and out of the classroom.
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On a road trip with his spirited mother, a student meets his late father’s elusive best friend, uncovering clues to a past both men seem desperate to keep hidden.
An immortal being takes on the form of a human boy, wandering the earth and experiencing the pains and joys of life throughout his story without end.
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Polish-Flemish philosopher Alicja Gescinska interviews national and international personalities with diverse philosophical and religious backgrounds.
In the fourth and fifth centuries, B.C., the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the foundation of modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history.
Alain de Botton's psychobabble-free self-help course for the philosophically minded.
David Malone’s 3-part series takes a fresh look at how the universe was formed, from a scientific and theological point of view. TESTING GOD re-examines the relationship between science and religion and asks: is science’s claim to victory premature?
The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part epic masterpiece, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
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15 episodes • 1987
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plato | Sep 6, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Aristotle | Sep 13, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Medieval Philosophy | Sep 20, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Descartes | Oct 4, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Spinoza and Leibniz | Oct 11, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Locke and Berkeley | Oct 18, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Hume | Oct 25, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Kant | Nov 1, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Hegel and Marx | Nov 8, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Schopenhauer | Nov 22, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Nietzsche | Nov 29, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism | Dec 6, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The American pragmatists | Dec 13, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 14 | Frege, Russell and Modern Logic | Dec 20, 1987 | 0.0 |
| 15 | Wittgenstein | Dec 27, 1987 | 0.0 |