Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Autobiographers

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic".

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  1. Al-Ghazali

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Islamic scholar Al-Ghazali, one of the most significant and influential philosophers of the Middle Ages.

    19 March 2015

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    Featuring: Peter Adamson, Carole Hillenbrand, Robert Gleave

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    PhilosophyMetaphysiciansEpistemologistsIslamic philosophersAutobiographers12th-century Muslim theologiansPsychology in the medieval Islamic worldMuslim critics of atheism, AsharisEconomists of the medieval Islamic world, MujaddidIranian logicians, Iranian ethicists

  2. Ibn Khaldun

    Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin and Hugh Kennedy discuss the life and ideas of the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.

    4 February 2010

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    Featuring: Robert Hoyland, Robert Graham Irwin, Hugh N. Kennedy

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    PhilosophyPhilosophers of historyPhilosophers of economicsIslamic philosophersTheoretical historiansWriters about globalizationAutobiographersUniversity of al-Qarawiyyin alumniMuslim critics of atheism, AsharisEconomists of the medieval Islamic world, Mujaddid

  3. Rousseau on Education

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rousseau's ideas on how to educate children so they retain their natural selves and are not corrupted by society.

    10 October 2019

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    Featuring: Richard Whatmore, Caroline Warman, Denis McManus

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    PhilosophySocial philosophersPhilosophers of literaturePhilosophers of mindWriters about activism and social changePhilosophers of culturePhilosophers of scienceEnlightenment philosophersAge of EnlightenmentPhilosophers of education18th-century philosophersPhilosophers of economicsCatholic philosophersFrench political philosophersPhilosophers of artSimple living advocatesDeist philosophers18th-century classical composersBurials at the Panthéon, ParisContributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)AutobiographersPeople with hypochondriasisClassical-period composers18th-century male musiciansProto-evolutionary biologistsRomantic philosophers, Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism