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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds in the world. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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FREEDOM
Freedom and slavery are mental states
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom has been a subject of enquiry for philosophers, theologians and politicians who have attempted to define the conditions required for humans to be free, not just in their minds but in the wider world. Some have argued that man is naturally free and no laws should confine his liberty. Others have countered that laws are the only way to preserve freedom, they protect us from the slavery of the abyss.
The very idea of freedom is riddled with constraints, limitations and qualifications, yet it is seen by many as the most basic of human rights and for some as a principle worth fighting and dying for.
Guests
John Keane
Professor of Politics, University of Westminster, author of a forthcoming history of democracy
Bernard Williams
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, author of the forthcoming Truth and Truthfulness (Princeton Press, October 2002)
Annabel Brett
Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, editor with Quentin Skinner of Liberty, Right and Nature (Cambridge University Press).
Next week: Psychoanalysis and Democracy
Sigmund Freud was born in Vienna in 1856 and died in 1939 just as Europe was about to be plunged into its second great war of the 20th century. Freud was therefore writing at a time when the storm clouds of fascism were gathering over Europe and the spectre of dictatorship was a looming presence in the minds of many Europeans. How did Freud incorporate this political conflict into his work? And how does psychoanalysis itself attempt to resolve the conflicting ideas and voices within our minds? Guests: Adam Philips, Malcolm Bowie and Sally Alexander.
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