Cogito Ergo Sum

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was part of the movement known as phenomenology. While less well-known than his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show Socrates preparing to die in the way he had lived: doing philosophy. In the Crito, Plato shows ...  Show more

In this first lecture, using Descartes famous argument for the claim “I think therefore I am’, we examine how to identify and evaluate arguments. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss existentialism. Imagine being back inside the bustling cafes on the Left Bank of Paris in the 1930s, cigarette smoke, strong coffee and the buzz of continental voices philosophising about human responsibility and freedom. This kind of talk gave utt ...  Show more

"أنا أفكر إذًا أنا موجود"~ René Descartesالشك لا يمكن أن يكون أساس المعرفة يناقش وسيم ورفيق رغبة البشر في "اليقينية"، متناولين👇- فلسفة ديكارت في المعرفة وتأثيرها عبر العصور المختلفة- التمييز بين الإثبات والدليلالإثبات👈 في مجال الرياضيات والمنطق المُجرد فقط - تثبت نظرية بما لا ي ...  Show more

On René Descartes's Discourse on Method (1637), an overview of his work that distills his method, outlines his famous Meditations, presents a provisional (Stoic) ethics, and considers whether he wants to be a public intellectual. This is all meant as a prefac ...