The Philosopher's Zone Podcast
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The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy. The program addresses the big philosophical questions and arguments.
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2009-11-07 - The Therapy of Desire - Epicureans and Stoics on the good life
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
Can philosophy be practical and compassionate? Can it exist for human beings and not just for its own coldly logical reasons? This was a question asked by the philosophers of the Hellenistic age, that´s the period following Aristotle, who died in 322BC. This week, Martha Nussbaum from the University of Chicago, talks about desire and Hellenistic ethics.
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2009-10-31 - Human cures and animal sacrifices
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
This week Denise Russell from the University of Wollongong argues that animals held for experimental purposes are in the same moral condition as human beings held as slaves. Secrecy and the status of science protect these practices from critical scrutiny. So millions of animals suffer and die in Australian experiments each year, though in other countries alternative ways of seeking knowledge have been developed.
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2009-10-24 - Beethoven and the modern
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
Music can make us happy or sad, it can present us with fascinating complex patterns, but can it make us think? Ludwig van Beethoven believed that it could and this week we look at his relationship to the philosophy of his day and his legacy to the modern world. Liberation and heroic defiance, spiritual alienation and transcendence, personal autonomy and a new conception of musical time - all these distinctive aspects of modern thought are intimately bound up with Beethoven, his personality, his personal history and, above all, his work.
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2009-10-17 - What would Karl Marx think?
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Oct 17, 2009
Commodities, capitalism and computers. At a time when the Berlin Wall has fallen but Wall Street is decidedly shaky, a self-described lapsed Marxist takes us through some of the key philosophical and practical ideas of Karl Marx and argues for what is still useful today. What is worth keeping in Marx? He had his limitations but later thinkers have built on his core concepts and used his methods to produce results that still speak to the changing nature of work in contemporary Australia.
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- Published:
2002
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
T018903
Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Philosophy
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