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Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

Talking Politics

A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, from revolution to lock down. Plus, he talks about the crises – revolutions, wars, depressions, pandemics – that generated these new ways of political thinking. From the team that brought you Talkin... more

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A special episode in which David answers some of the audience's questions about the second series of History of Ideas. From how he chooses which writers and works to talk about, to whether Boris Johnson is the ultimate Benthamite and whether the idea... more

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Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices (1984) made the case that the worst of all the vices is cruelty. But that meant we needed to be more tolerant of some other common human failings, including snobbery, betrayal and hypocrisy. David explores what she had ... more

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Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) was designed as a rebuttal to Rawls but it was so much more than that. It offered a defence of the minimal state that appealed to the writers of The Sopranos and a vision of utopia that appealed to the... more

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John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) changed the face of modern political philosophy by reinventing the question of what constitutes fairness. From ‘the veil of ignorance’ to ‘reflective equilibrium’ it introduced new ways of thinking about the pr... more

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  • One of my favorite podcasts

    Please continue!

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  • thanks

    That’s great for students and especially those who study philosophy but are in lack of political approach! Thanks

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    Francea year ago
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    This podcast sucked me and my neighbour into an ongoing broader enquiry into philosophy, sociology, psychology & literature - thank you

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    Ushi1ushi1
    United Kingdoma year ago
  • Pompous windbagery

    Philosophy is an old useless system of thought which has been irrelevant to society for a century. There more

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    Tom from Brinswick
    Australiaa year ago
  • Thank you for this

    Wow. Just wow. Thank you for making the time and effort for this. Great educational podcast.

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    Jeiyo
    United States2 years ago

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