Bryan Magee - The Great Philosophers

1987.

Chapters:

0:00 Myles Burnyeat on Plato
43:59 Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle
1:27:24 Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy
2:10:25 Bernard Williams on Descartes
2:53:30 Anthony Quinton on Spinoza and Leibniz
3:37:02 Michael Ayers on Locke and Berkeley
4:20:09 John Passmore on Hume
5:01:24 Geoffrey Warnock on Kant
5:44:14 Peter Singer on Hegel and Marx
6:27:15 Frederick Copleston on Schopenhauer
7:10:42 J. P. Stern on Nietzsche
7:53:42 Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger
8:39:15 Sidney Morgenbesser on the American Pragmatists
9:20:04 A. J. Ayer on Frege, Russell, and Modern Logic
10:02:12 John Searle on Wittgenstein

[tigerlillyfeelfree]

This upload is a beautiful rest from our weary confusing world.

[DorothyPotterSnyder]

Martha Nussbaum is amazing. Secondly, when I watch these videos, and I watch them several times over, I find that my best method is to take each point as it’s explicated, and then pause the video and absorb it and then come back and watch the rest of the video. I am getting so much from this education and I’m so grateful both to Bryan McGee for his extraordinary work and to the uploader of these videos.

[ratbullkan]

Complex broadcastings have died out since they didn't get as much audience as other programs, but I'm confident the intelligent articulate people are still around

[hossamgebeily]

I’m very ignorant. I’ve had to watch this a couple of times to really understand this. Thank you for the free education! 🙏

[TimothyFreeborn]

I had Myles Burnyeat as a tutor for two terms in 1978. It's such a pleasure to see him as I remember him. He developed Alzheimer's when he was 70 and died at 80. Still, he lived and here he is.

[davidkennedy]

These episodes are awesome. They will be a delight forever. I feel blessed watching them.

[marsbanditnyc]

I put this on before going to sleep and woke up 7 hours later to it still playing 😅 great upload!

[lefthand]

I've been listening to these and the late 70s series at night for a few years now. I rarely understand what they're on about, but that's what helps me get to sleep! Thanks for putting them in all one vid!

[SpiritintheSky.]

What a joy. I've owned the accompanying book (and others of his) for decades. Now I can watch the programmes. We owe the remarkably articulate Mr Magee (RIP) a great debt of gratitude for all he did in his long life to stimulate an interest in philosophy in the non-specialist. Thank you very much, Mr Balcarras, for making this priceless material available.

[dann]

Great upload. Thanks. You've do us all a great service.

[MichaelSheffield-oxyd]

This is a glorious immersion into pure intellect. RIP Bryan Magee, whose The Philosophy of Schopenhauer is a masterpiece, as is his Confessions of a Philosopher. Ultimate Questions, his last published book, is a gem as well.

[glennpaquette]

This is an amazing series. Thank you Bryan Magee. I wish I had met him.

[garyhughes]

I remember watching The Great Philosophers many years ago when engaged in my own studies. It is wonderful to be able to rewatch them now, all these years later, and altogether in one in one huge upload. Really appreciate the work that’s gone into this. Thx for sharing.

[lefthand]

Thank you for putting all of these in one place. Always happy to hear Bryan Magee talk about "philosophay".

[clickityclackity]

This is priceless ! I’ve been listening to this, over and over, again ! Thank you !!

[BrainiacFingers]

Tremendous upload!!! It's great to have the entire series on one video. 👍

[nickstoli]

Okay, one of these days I'm going to buckle down and watch this whole thing. Before that, just want to thank you for making this available!

[marcobrambilla]

To listen to these dialogues brings us so far above our lives

[serhiyzhylin]

Thanks for this. This video has been a companion to my morning routine for a week now)

[sean.]

This is incredible! I’ve never heard of Bryan Magee before watching this. He’s an incredibly good speaker.