Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling retells and interprets the story of Abraham and Isaac. In Kierkegaard's hands the story becomes a model for the human predicament. In this episode of the Philoso...
10 Aug 200813min
Alex Neill - the Paradox of Tragedy
How can we enjoy watching tragedy when it is a genre that deals with suffering and pain? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Alex Neill explains what the paradox of tragedy is, and shows ...
3 Aug 200816min
Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most notorious works of political philosophy ever written. Quentin Skinner sets it in its historical context and explains its key themes in this episode ...
27 Jul 200825min
Peter Adamson on Plotinus on Evil
Plotinus, who lived in the 3rd Century A.D., was the founder of neo-platonism. In this episode of Philosophy Bites Peter Adamson explains what Plotinus had to say about evil.
20 Jul 200814min
Matthew Kramer on Legal Rights
What precisely is a legal right? Matthew Kramer discusses this question with Nigel Warburton in this episode of Philosophy Bites.
13 Jul 200815min
Melissa Lane on Rousseau on Modern Society
Modern society is for most people synonymous with progress. Not for the eighteenth century thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau believed that civilization corrupts us in certain ways. Melissa Lane ...
6 Jul 200816min
John Broome on Weighing Lives
How do we weigh lives one against another? Governments frequently have to make life and death decisions that take in to account such issues as the quality of life compared to the length of a life. In ...
29 Jun 200814min
Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
Jacques Derrida, father of deconstructionism, divided philosophers. For some he was a genius; for others a charlatan. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites Robert Rowland Smith defends Derrida's vie...
22 Jun 200812min
