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Radio 3,01 Nov 2018,44 mins

Rethinking the Human Condition

Free Thinking

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Matthew Sweet considers the responsibility of thinking with Henry Hardy, who published the works of Isaiah Berlin, one of the 20th century's greatest public intellectuals. New Generation Thinker, Dafydd Daniel reflects on the 18th century Thomas Woolston whose thinking got him imprisoned plus what we remember and why we remember and what and why we forget in a discussion of the literature and science of memory with Hilde Østby &‎ Ylva Østby. Henry Hardy has written In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure Diving For Seahorses: A Journey Through the Science of Memory by Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby explores the study of memory from the Renaissance to the present day. Dafydd Daniel is a New Generation Thinker and the McDonald Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, University of Oxford. Producer: Jacqueline Smith Main Image: Sir Isaiah Berlin, pictured in May 1976

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