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Great Thinkers: Making the connections Featuring: activity, Copyrighted Image The Open University

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

01 August 2011

Who were the great thinkers that shaped the way we live today? What connects Nelson Mandela with the feminist-philosopher Simone de Beauvoir? Play this series...  Read more : Great Thinkers: Making the connections

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OU on the BBC: In Their Own Words - Great ThinkersCopyrighted Image Marco Richter | Dreamstime.com

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

01 August 2011

This series looks at important thinkers through the TV and radio broadcasts they made for the BBC  Read more : OU on the BBC: In Their Own Words - Great Thinkers

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Let's hear it for AristotleTilemahos Efthimiadis under CC-BY-SA licence

By Dr Geoff Andrews (The Open University)

27 July 2011

Is there any reason to study the thoughts of a long-dead Greek? Geoff Andrews find inspiration in the work of Martha Nussbaum.  Read more : Let's hear it for Aristotle

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Sandel on Kant and the capacity for reason  Featuring: video, The Open University

By Professor Michael J. Sandel (Guest)

18 January 2011

Michael Sandel looks at how Kant's emphasis on our capacity to reason has a place for beings who lack much in the way of reasoning...  Read more : Sandel on Kant and the capacity for reason

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Sandel on Aristotle's thoughts on the good life  Featuring: video, The Open University

By Professor Michael J. Sandel (Guest)

18 January 2011

Sandel asks whether if there are many different kinds of the good life  Read more : Sandel on Aristotle's thoughts on the good life

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Sandel on a world without philosophers  Featuring: video, The Open University

By Professor Michael J. Sandel (Guest)

18 January 2011

Michael Sandel considers what life would be like without the great philosophical thinkers   Read more : Sandel on a world without philosophers

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Sandel on Bentham's views on happiness and justice  Featuring: video, The Open University

By Professor Michael J. Sandel (Guest)

18 January 2011

Sandel discusses Bentham's view that justice is entirely about maximising one's own and everyone else's happiness  Read more : Sandel on Bentham's views on happiness and justice

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Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)BBC

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

01 April 2002

Introducing the life and thoughts of Karl Marx  Read more : Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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