Western Philosophy

Name: Western Philosophy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2002-01-01
Cast: Trevor Nichols

— Jan 2002 1 Season 3 Episodes

Ended

Documentary

Overview

"For it is owning to their wonder that men now begin and first began to philosophize," wrote Aristotle. Examine the profound impact Western history's intellectual giants had on their time and on stimulating the minds of future generations.

🇺🇸 United States · English

Cast

Trevor Nichols

Narrator

Part 1

This part examines some of important Western philosophers from the ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, including Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas.

Jan 1, 2002 150m

Part 2

This part looks at some of important Western philosophers during the 16th to 18th centuries: Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.

Jan 8, 2002 150m

Part 3

This part examines some of important Western philosophers and philosophical traditions in the 19th and 20th centuries, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Pragmatism, and Sartre.

Jan 15, 2002 150m

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