The lottery of birth

DVD 2013

Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? Is freedom something we are born with or something we must work to attain? Offering a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, 'The lottery of birth' is going to make you think again about what it means to be free. Drawing on the best minds in philosophy, history, psychology, physics and economics, it employs decades of evidence to interrogate what we are, where we are and where we want...

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Creative thinking Social aspects

Critical thinking Social aspects

Equality Social aspects

Human behavior Social aspects

Liberty Social aspects

Social action Philosophy

Social change Philosophy

Social control

Social ethics

Social justice

Social perception

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Creating freedom Creating freedom ; episode one Creating freedom ; episode one. DVD

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Description:

1 videodisc (77 minutes) : sound, colour with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital optical
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Other Title:

Creating freedom. Episode 1, The lottery of birth

Notes:

Presented by Mangu TV
"To take freedom for granted is to extinguish the possibility of attaining it"--Container
Special features: extended interviews with Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Jeff Schmidt and Howard Zinn
Conceived, written and edited by Raoul Martinez ; director of photography, Joshua van Praag ; music by Peter Raeburn ; additional music by Oli Julian and Nick Foster
Narrator, Nicholas Woodeson ; featuring interviews with: Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva, Steven Pinker, George Monbiot, Kathleen Taylor, Daniel Dennett, Tony Benn, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jeff Schmidt, Stanley Aronowitz, Nick Davies, Michael Albert
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereo
For private home use only
In English, with optional subtitles in English, French, German, Portuguese or Spanish

Contents:

Introduction
Birth
Education
Employment
Obedience
Questioning
Creativity

Control Number:

1576452

UPC:

091131354827

Other Authors:

Albert, Michael, 1947-
Aronowitz, Stanley
Benn, Tony, 1925-2014
Davies, Nick, 1953-
Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
Fletcher, Bill, Jr
Martinez, Raoul
Monbiot, George, 1963-
Pinker, Steven, 1954-
Praag, Joshua van
Schmidt, Jeff, 1946-
Shiva, Vandana
Taylor, Kathleen E. (Kathleen Eleanor)
Woodeson, Nicholas
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

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