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<title>Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or</title>
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<title>John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism</title>
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<title>John Stuart Mill On Liberty</title>
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<title>Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Idea</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kant - Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals</title>
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<title>Kant - Critique of Pure Reason</title>
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<title>Hume - Dialogues</title>
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<title>Hume - Enquiry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How do we learn about the world? David Hume's answer, like Locke's, was via experience. In this podcast, based on Nigel Warburton's <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy: The Classics, </span>outlines Hume's views on a number of issues such as induction, causation, and miracles.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Locke - 2nd Treatise</title>
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<title>Locke - Essay</title>
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<title>Spinoza - Ethics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What kind of freedom can human beings achieve? Is the mind distinct from the body? Are we and everything in the universe part of God? In this episode of Philosophy: The Classics, Nigel Warburton outlines the key features of Spinoza's great book <span style="font-style: italic;">Ethics</span>.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Hobbes - Leviathan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone give up their freedom to become part of an organised state? In this reading from his book <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy: The Classics</span>, Nigel Warburton outlines Thomas Hobbes' central arguments from&nbsp; <span style="font-style: italic;">Leviathan</span>.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Descartes - Meditations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is this just a handbook for psychopaths, or a satirical attack on his contemporaries, or did Machiavelli have a moral message? In this reading from his book <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy: The Classics</span>, Nigel Warburton explains the central themes from Machiavelli's great work <span style="font-style: italic;">The Prince</span> and explores different interpretations of the book.<br/>]]></description>
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<title>Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What consolation can Philosophy provide to a condemned man? Boethius wrote <span style="font-style: italic;">The Consolation of Philosophy</span> while awaiting torture and execution. He imagines Philosophy visiting him personified as a woman. Philosophy explains to him how the Wheel of Fortune turns, but yet happiness remains within human control.&nbsp; Nigel Warburton reads Chapter 3 from this book <span style="font-style: italic;">Philosophy: The Classic</span>s which gives a critical summary of Boethius' book.<br/>]]></description>
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