Spinoza in Our Time (BBC, 2007)
Ergens in een blog had ik al wel eens verwezen naar de uitzending die BBC4 Radio op 3 mei 2007 uitzond over Benedictus de Spinoza.
Melvyn Bragg sprak met Jonathan Rée, historian and philosopher and Visiting Professor at Roehampton University; Sarah Hutton, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth; John Cottingham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. [Cf.]
Meestal als iemand zo'n uitzending naar Youtube brengt wordt het daar weer van verwijderd na klachten van de BBC. Maar dit programma staat daar nu al 5 maanden; misschien wel met instemming van de BBC om zo een nieuw publiek te bereiken. Met dat doel haal ik het ook hier binnen - met zo'n BBC-uitzending is niet mogelijk wat met een Youtube-video wel kan.
Nog dit uit de begeleidende tekst: =video kan, met die BBZ
For the radical thinkers of the Enlightenment, he was the first man to have lived and died as a true atheist. For others, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he provides perhaps the most profound conception of God to be found in Western philosophy. He was bold enough to defy the thinking of his time, yet too modest to accept the fame of public office and he died, along with Socrates and Seneca, one of the three great deaths in philosophy. Baruch Spinoza can claim influence on both the Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century and great minds of the 19th, notably Hegel, and his ideas were so radical that they could only be fully published after his death. But what were the ideas that caused such controversy in Spinoza’s lifetime, how did they influence the generations after, and can Spinoza really be seen as the first philosopher of the rational Enlightenment?
