World-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and London School of Economics professor Ernest Gellner discuss contemporary philosophy, its historical and social backgrounds, and its role in modern society. Gellner examines the radical expansion of scientific knowledge and its dehumanizing effect on society as expressed by sociologist Max Weber. Marxism’s messianic expectation is blamed for its failure to reconstruct society. Gellner dismisses today’s philosophy of relativism as unworkable. A BBC Production. (46 minutes)

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		An Introduction to Philosophy Bryan Magee-world-renowned author and professor-and Sir Isaiah Berlin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and biographer of Karl Marx, answer fundamental questions such as "What is philosophy?" "Why does it matter?" and "Why should anybody be inter...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $149.93 3-Year Streaming $99.95
		Moral Philosophy In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and R. M. Hare examine the 19th-century philosophy of Utilitarianism-morals and legislation predicated on the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers-in the tradition of Bentham, J...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95
		Philosophy and Literature The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $149.93 3-Year Streaming $99.95
		Heidegger and Modern Existentialism In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and William Barret of New York University examine the basic theory of existentialism as founded by Martin Heidegger, and later propagated by Jean-Paul Sartre. Barret discusses Heidegger...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95
		Philosophy and Politics In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, examine how the explosive issues of the 1960s compelled the reassessment of fundamental political ideas, and discuss the effect...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95

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