Each generation remakes the meaning of being young. Hugh Cunningham explores some of these childhood inventions.
Category: History
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John Locke
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This short animation, narrated by Aidan Turner, explores persuading people to change their beliefs by force.
Category: Philosophy
This animation explores how we can be sure we're the same person as we were yesterday and looks at John Locke's ideas on this.
Category: Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), perhaps the greatest English political philosopher, argued that life in the state of nature would be, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". But what is the state of nature? Need it be so miserable? And why does this matter, anyway? Jonathan Wolff, Professor of Philosophy, University College London, considers the issues.
Category: Philosophy
The unwritten 'social contract' keeps society functioning, as Jon Pike explains
Category: Philosophy
On a journey from Plato's Republic to the Mitchell Brothers' Walford, can we use philosophy to understand trust?
Category: Philosophy
These days, political parties of all persuasions can agree on at least one thing: they are all in favour of freedom. Of course, freedom is a highly slippery term. Freedom for who, and to what extent? And how do we recognise and manage the boundaries where one person’s ‘freedom’ might harm another person?
Category: Sociology