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A History of Ideas
Explore some big questions about how we live today.
How Can I Know Anything At All?
David Hume on Miracles
David Hume on Miracles
Esse est Percipi - ('To be is to be perceived')
Esse est Percipi - ('To be is to be perceived')
Karl Popper's Falsification
Karl Popper's Falsification
Wittgenstein’s Beetle in the Box Analogy
Wittgenstein’s Beetle in the Box Analogy
What Is Love?
I love my mum (but not like that...)
I love my mum (but not like that...)
How two halves make a whole.
How two halves make a whole.
Love? What’s in it for me?
Love? What’s in it for me?
Sartre: Love is a hazardous, painful struggle.
Sartre: Love is a hazardous, painful struggle.
How Should We Live Together?
John Locke on Toleration
John Locke on Toleration
Adam Smith on the Invisible Hand
Adam Smith on the Invisible Hand
Plato's Philosopher Kings
Plato's Philosopher Kings
Confucian Ancestor Worship
Confucian Ancestor Worship
What Does it Mean to be Me?
Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Choice
Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Choice
Know Thyself
Know Thyself
Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am”
Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am”
Erving Goffman and The Performed Self
Erving Goffman and The Performed Self
What is Justice?
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
The Veil Of Ignorance
The Veil Of Ignorance
Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus
Lex Talionis and Retribution
Lex Talionis and Retribution
How Do I Live A Good Life?
Aristotle on 'Flourishing'
Aristotle on 'Flourishing'
Ayn Rand on Selfishness
Ayn Rand on Selfishness
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths
Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths
Has Technology Changed Us?
The Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism
The Fourth Revolution
The Fourth Revolution
The Medium Is The Message
The Medium Is The Message
Rewiring the Brain
Rewiring the Brain
What Makes Me Human?
Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition
Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition
The Idea of Cultural Transmission
The Idea of Cultural Transmission
Karl Marx on Alienation
Karl Marx on Alienation
John Locke on Personal Identity
John Locke on Personal Identity
How Did Everything Begin?
The Big Bang
The Big Bang
Hindu Creation Stories
Hindu Creation Stories
Thomas Aquinas and the First Mover Argument
Thomas Aquinas and the First Mover Argument
William Paley and the Divine Watchmaker
William Paley and the Divine Watchmaker
What Does It Mean To Be Free?
Thomas Hobbes on Freedom vs Security
Thomas Hobbes on Freedom vs Security
John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle
John Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle
The Free Will Defence
The Free Will Defence
The Libet Experiments and Free Will
The Libet Experiments and Free Will
How Can I Know Wrong from Right?
Kant's Axe
Kant's Axe
The Trolley Problem
The Trolley Problem
The Life You Can Save
The Life You Can Save
The Is / Ought Problem
The Is / Ought Problem
Why Are Things Beautiful?
Edmund Burke on the Sublime
Edmund Burke on the Sublime
The Golden Ratio
The Golden Ratio
Simone de Beauvoir on Feminine Beauty
Simone de Beauvoir on Feminine Beauty
Diotima’s Ladder
Diotima’s Ladder
