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Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher

Controversial theologian and philosopher Don Cupitt presents Jesus as a radical secular humanist in this interview for the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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Philosophy Bites is made in association with the University of London's  Institute of Philosophy

A.C. Grayling on Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions

A.C. Grayling outlines Bertrand Russell's proudest achievement, his theory of descriptions in this episode of the philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites.

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Catalin Avramescu on the Idea of Cannibalism

Catalin Avramescu, from the University of Bucharest, discusses the part played in 17th and 18th century thought by the cannibal. Cannibalism provided a kind of test case for all sorts of natural law theories - it also posed difficulties for those who believed in a literal resurrection of the body after death, since if eaten, then their body parts would have been assimilated into someone else's body.

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