Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human: Season 1

Air Date

August 9, 1999

Episodes

3 episodes

Human, All Too Human

Season 1

Episodes

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.

2. 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.

3. The Road to Freedom

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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