Asks whether the state is merely an artificial arrangement we construct to make life better, as social contact theorists claim, or whether it’s a natural organism through which people achieve their potential.
The Examined Life brings learners the philosophic wisdom of the western world in 26 half-hour programs.
Each episode examines the "Great Questions" that have intrigued philosophers from antiquity to the present. Using writings of past philosophers and interviews with contemporary philosophers, the series underscores how these classic questions still reverberate in modern man.
