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The Great Philosophers is a 1987 BBC television series presented by Bryan Magee. There were 15 episodes, in each of which Magee interviewed a noted philosopher.




Overview


In this series, Magee discussed the major historical figures of Western philosophy with fifteen contemporary philosophers. The series covered the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes, among others, ending with a discussion with John Searle on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Extensively revised versions of the dialogues of The Great Philosophers are available in a book of the same name. DVDs of, and streaming rights to, the series are sold to academic institutions and episodes are available to stream to those with access to the Alexander Street academic database. Neither this series, nor Magee's 1978 series Men of Ideas, are commercially available to home users but most of the episodes from both are freely available on YouTube. The theme played over the opening credits comes from the third movement of Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich).




Guests


Myles Burnyeat on Plato
Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy
Bernard Williams on Descartes
Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
Michael R. Ayers on Locke and Berkeley
John Passmore on Hume
Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer
J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
Sidney Morgenbesser on The American Pragmatists
A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
John Searle on Wittgenstein




See also


Men of Ideas, a similar BBC television series presented by Magee in 1978




References






External links


The Great Philosophers at the BFI's Screenonline
Audio (MP3) files of interviews

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