Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Fiona Hughes

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex

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2 episodes

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  1. Kant's Copernican Revolution

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Kant's ideas on how the world depends on us, on the limits of human knowledge and why we are bound to ask questions we cannot answer.

    3 June 2021

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    Also featuring: Anil Gomes, John Callanan

     
  2. Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's influential ideas about what it means to be moral.

    12 January 2017

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    Also featuring: Stephen Mulhall, Keith Ansell-Pearson