A History of Ideas animations

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Big questions and theories explained in under 2 minutes from A History of Ideas on BBC Radio 4. Animations voiced by Harry Shearer, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Fry and Aidan Turner. Scripted by Nigel Warburton. This project is made in collaboration with The Open University and the animations were created by Cognitive.

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  • The Libet Experiment: Is free will just an illusion?
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:55
  • The Free Will Defence: A Good God vs The Problem of Evil
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:56
  • The Harm Principle: How to live your life the way you want to
    Dec 18, 2014 – 02:00
  • Freedom vs Security: Freedom at any cost?
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:53
  • Edmund Burke on the sublime
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:48
  • Diotima's Ladder: From Lust to Morality
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:35
  • Feminine Beauty: A social construct?
    Dec 18, 2014 – 02:01
  • The Golden Ratio: Possibly the best rectangle in the world
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:55
  • Kant's Axe
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:33
  • The Trolley Problem
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:37
  • The Life You Can Save
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:31
  • The Is / Ought Problem
    Dec 18, 2014 – 01:28
  • Hindu Creation Stories
    Jan 13, 2015 – 02:03
  • The Big Bang
    Jan 14, 2015 – 01:55
  • Thomas Aquinas and the First Mover Argument
    Jan 15, 2015 – 01:53
  • William Paley and the Divine Watchmaker
    Jan 16, 2015 – 01:50
  • The Idea of Cultural Tranmission
    Jan 20, 2015 – 01:39
  • Karl Marx on Alienation
    Jan 21, 2015 – 01:57
  • Noam Chomsky on Language Aquisition
    Jan 22, 2015 – 01:47
  • John Locke on Personal Identity
    Jan 23, 2015 – 01:46
  • Rewiring the Brain
    Jan 27, 2015 – 01:46
  • The Fourth Revolution
    Jan 28, 2015 – 01:54
  • The Medium Is The Message
    Jan 29, 2015 – 01:59
  • The Antikythera Mechanism
    Jan 30, 2015 – 02:03
  • Aristotle on 'Flourishing'
    Mar 31, 2015 – 01:59
  • Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
    Apr 1, 2015 – 01:51
  • Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths
    Apr 2, 2015 – 01:41
  • Ayn Rand on Selfishness
    Apr 2, 2015 – 02:05
  • Lex Talionis and Retribution
    Apr 7, 2015 – 01:53
  • The Veil Of Ignorance
    Apr 8, 2015 – 01:36
  • Civil Disobedience
    Apr 9, 2015 – 02:06
  • Habeas Corpus
    Apr 10, 2015 – 01:58
  • Know Thyself
    Apr 14, 2015 – 02:07
  • Jean-Paul Sartre and Existential Choice
    Apr 15, 2015 – 02:04
  • Erving Goffman and The Performed Self
    Apr 16, 2015 – 01:58
  • Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am”
    Apr 17, 2015 – 01:56
  • John Locke on Toleration
    Jul 28, 2015 – 01:40
  • The Invisible Hand
    Jul 29, 2015 – 01:35
  • Plato's Philosopher Kings
    Jul 30, 2015 – 01:30
  • Confucian Ancestor Worship
    Jul 31, 2015 – 01:35
  • The Myth of the Missing Half
    Aug 3, 2015 – 01:43
  • Is Selfless Love Possible?
    Aug 3, 2015 – 01:37
  • Jean Paul Sartre on Love
    Aug 3, 2015 – 01:43
  • The Oedipus Complex and the Westermarck Effect
    Aug 3, 2015 – 01:41
  • Should You Believe in Miracles?
    Aug 4, 2015 – 01:36
  • Karl Popper's Falsification
    Aug 5, 2015 – 01:50
  • Esse est Percipi - ('To be is to be perceived')
    Aug 6, 2015 – 01:50
  • Wittgenstein's Beetle in a Box Analogy
    Aug 7, 2015 – 01:40
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