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Back to SearchThe History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series: John Stuart Mill
Season 2 Episode 28
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Join us as we delve into the life and legacy of John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th centur…
1 year, 10 months ago
John Locke, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine - The Quest for Liberty
Season 2 Episode 29
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Three radically different accounts of liberty, property, and revolution, from three thinkers who each shaped how the English-speaking…
1 year, 10 months ago
The History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series, Locke & Paine.
Season 2 Episode 26
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John Locke (1632–1704), a key figure of the Enlightenment, is known for his contributions to philosophy, politics, and epistemology. …
1 year, 10 months ago
Rousseau's Social Contract and the Civic Religion
Season 2 Episode 27
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Rousseau thought freedom meant being forced to obey a law you gave yourself. This episode unpacks that paradox — and the civic religi…
1 year, 10 months ago
The History Of Ideas And Political Thought Reading Club Presents: Liberty Series, Rousseau.
Season 2 Episode 25
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This week's discussion will focus on Book 4 of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract. In this section, Rousseau delves into the…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Plinian Society and the Birth of Evolutionary Science in 19th-Century Edinburgh
Season 1 Episode 24
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Before Darwin published a word, a student society in Edinburgh was already arguing about evolution. Meet the Plinian Society.
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2 years, 1 month ago
Rt Honourable Tom Brake (Lib Dem) on Constitutional Reform, Brexit and the Union
Season 1 Episode 23
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A former Liberal Democrat MP on constitutional reform, Brexit, and the future of the Union, from the inside.
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2 years, 4 months ago
Science in the Age of Revolutions: the Context of Darwin.
Season 1 Episode 23
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Darwin didn't arrive in a vacuum — the scientific and political revolutions around him shaped what On the Origin of Species could eve…
2 years, 5 months ago
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and King Arthur
Season 1 Episode 22
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Two of Purcell's greatest works, and what they reveal about power, myth, and Englishness in Restoration culture.
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2 years, 5 months ago
Transcribing the Bentham Project
Season 1 Episode 22
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Behind the scenes of transcribing Jeremy Bentham's vast unpublished archive — and what it's like doing the unglamorous work of intell…
2 years, 6 months ago