HISTORY OF IDEAS: Modernity – School of Life

This is a film about how the world became modern – and in particular what is exciting and beautiful about this development, and at the same time, what is hugely depressing and possibly madness-inducing about it. “Since the middle of the eighteenth century, beginning in Northern Europe and then spreading to every corner of the

PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant | School of Life

Immanuel Kant was acutely aware of living in an age when philosophy would need to supplant the role once played by religion.