The Examined Life

What is philosophy? What is human nature? Are we social beings? What is real? How do we encounter the world? Do we have free will? Does God exist? Does knowledge depend on experience? How does science add to knowledge? Can rules define morality? What is justice? There are so many great questions about life which have intrigued us since ancient times. The Examined Life is a 26-part TV series that brings us the philosophic wisdom of the western world. Using archival materials, dramatizations and conversations with contemporary philosophers, the series examines these great questions that have intrigued philosophers from antiquity to the present.


Episode 01 - What is philosophy? Episode 14 - Does the mind shape the world?
Episode 02 - What is human nature? Episode 15 - How does science add to knowledge?
Episode 03 - Is mind distinct from body? Episode 16 - Does science give us truth?
Episode 04 - Is there an enduring self? Episode 17 - Are interpretations true?
Episode 05 - Are we social beings? Episode 18 - Is morality relative?
Episode 06 - What is real? Episode 19 - Does the end justify the means?
Episode 07 - How do we encounter the world? Episode 20 - Can rules define morality?
Episode 08 - Do we have free will? Episode 21 - Is ethics based on virtue?
Episode 09 - Is time real? Episode 22 - Moral dilemmas...can ethics help?
Episode 10 - Does God exist? Episode 23 - What justifies the state?
Episode 11 - Can we know God through experience? Episode 24 - What is justice?
Episode 12 - Is reason the source of knowledge? Episode 25 - What is art?
Episode 13 - Does knowledge depend on experience? Episode 26 - What is the meaning of life?


Film.. Examined Life
This reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
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