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History of Ideas Short animations to explain some big questions around freewill, beauty and good and evil. "A fresh take on the History of Ideas as big subjects like beauty, freedom, technology and morality get dissected by a team of thinkers. Philosophers, theologians, lawyers, Neuroscientists, historians and mathematicians join Melvyn Bragg to present a history in many voices." See link to all animations in the series http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3vVjcY47k2p5Wsnj3ZFHV5W/a-history-of-ideas Example Animation Edmund Burke and the sublime "Some things that move us are beautiful, others are sublime. But the sublime moves us more profoundly than the beautiful. See how Edmund Burke tied the experience of the sublime to t…

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History of Ideas

Short animations to explain some big questions around freewill, beauty and good and evil.


"A fresh take on the History of Ideas as big subjects like beauty, freedom, technology and morality get dissected by a team of thinkers. Philosophers, theologians, lawyers, Neuroscientists, historians and mathematicians join Melvyn Bragg to present a history in many voices."



See link to all animations in the series

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3vVjcY47k2p5Wsnj3ZFHV5W/a-history-of-ideas



Example Animation



Edmund Burke and the sublime







"Some things that move us are beautiful, others are sublime. But the sublime moves us more profoundly than the beautiful. See how Edmund Burke tied the experience of the sublime to the possibility of pain and how the idea went on to influence the artistic Romanticism movement.
Voiced by Harry Shearer. Scripted by Nigel Warburton."



Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b8t1k



BOOK: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Read Book online - Project Gutenberg





Investigate Further



The Enlightenment - 6 The Enlightenment on art, genius and the sublime

Open University http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/history-art/the-enlightenment/content-section-8



http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/burke_edmund.shtml



http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/burke/










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Animation about: Edmund Burke and the sublime - Sounding Visual Blog