Season 1 (1999)
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Episodes 3
1
Beyond Good and Evil
August 9, 1999
Beyond Good and Evil describes the life of Friedrich Nietzsche and his gradual shift from religion to nihilism, and finally, to insanity. Towards the end of his life, his sister Elizabeth is depicted as a Nazi sympathizer who took advantage of his mental condition by falsifying his works and letters and attempted to portray him as proto-Fascist thinker.
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Thinking the Unthinkable
August 10, 1999
A profile of the radical German philosopher whose affiliation with the Nazi Party was eventually forgiven, largely due to the support of his Jewish former-lover Hanna Arrant.
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The Road to Freedom
Season Finale
August 11, 1999
A biographical study of French philosopher, playwright and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre , exploring the aetiology of his thought and how his popularisation of existentialism radically changed the way we see ourselves.
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