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Two 40-minute interviews by philosopher Johnathan Ree looking at the interviewees’ work in relationship to human rights issues. Julia Kristeva discusses semiotics, as applied to linguistics and literature,...
An interview by philosopher Johnathan Ree with Paul Ricour looking at the relationship of Ricour’s work to human rights issues. They discuss language, religion, psychoanalysis, narrative and Ricour’s...
Series looking at new thinking in cosmology, evolution and brain sciences, observing that developments in science appear toconverge with religious ideas that are both ancient and new. 1 (producer Angela...
Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, yet his work remains relatively unknown. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Benjamin was a writer and broadcaster in pre-Hitler...
David Bohm, quantum physicist and philosopher of science, brought together a radical view of physics, a deeply spiritual understanding and a prfound humanity. In his ground-breaking theory of wholeness and...
Examines the argument between scientists and astrologers on the value of forecasting the future and investigates the premise that our future is not in the stars but rooted here on earth.
Through the centuries the trial of Socrates has been seen in terms of an intellectual martyr’s struggle against the power of the state. But what exactly was Socrates accused of, and how far was his...
During the last two years of Joseph Campbell’s life journalist Bill Moyers interviewed him at filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City....
In 1974 Dr Brandon Carter put forward the anthropic principle - the fact that we are here places restrictions on what the universe can look like. Dr Carter later put forward a more controversial theory -...
A discussion on medical ethics led by Raanan Gillon, a practising GP and editor of the ‘Journal of MedicaL Ethics’. The participants are Diana Brahams (barrister-at-law and editor of the ‘Medico-legal...
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