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Series 1: 9. Hegel and Marx
Bryan Magee and Peter Singer discuss the work of German philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) and Karl Marx (1818-1883). He is joined by Peter Singer.
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Myles Burnyeat looks at Plato, the first western philosopher whose written works have survived.
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Bryan Magee and guest Anthony Kenny discuss the work of the medieval philosophers and the contribution of figures such as St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.\n
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