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Reith Lectures 2002 - A Question of Trust
 

Hall of fame

 
David Tennant portrays Rousseau in The Romantics
David Tennant portrays Rousseau in The Romantics

How the game works

Explore the philosophy behind the game with the prisoner's dilemma in detail.

The master jailer

He invented the Prisoner's Dilemma, but that's just the start of the work of John Nash.

Reasonable

Reason, rather than religion, was at the heart of the philosophy of Kant.

From Sun Tzu to Onora O'Neill - over the ages a number of philosophers have looked at the issue of trust, here's our selection:

Sun Tzu (4th Century BC)

Plato (427 - 347 BC)

Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469 - 1527)

Hobbes, Thomas (1588 - 1679)

Hume, David (1711 - 1776)

Rousseau, Jean-Jaques (1712 - 1778)

Kant, Immanuel (1724 - 1804)

Marx, Karl (1818 - 1883)

Foucault, Michel (1926 - 1984)

Nash, John (1928 - )

Baier, Annette (1929 - )

O'Neill, Onora (1941 - )

 

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