''Human, All Too Human'' is a three-part 1999

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co-produced by the

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Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th ce ...

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lit ...

Episodes

*Episode 1: ''Beyond Good and Evil'' describes the life of

and his gradual shift from

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to nihilism, and finally, to

insanity Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors performed by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can be manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or t ...

. Towards the end of his life, his sister

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is depicted as a

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

sympathizer who took advantage of his mental condition by falsifying his works and letters and attempted to portray him as proto-Fascist thinker. *Episode 2: ''Thinking the Unthinkable'' centers around

, who developed ideas from the writings and ideas of Nietzsche in an attempt to better understand individual human freedom. Before and after the reign of the Nazis in Germany, Heidegger spent much of his time living in solitude in the hill of Todtnauberg to allow himself to clear his mind and better focus on his own philosophy. Due to the fact that he was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 until the end of

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, his works were dismissed by his critics as Nazi propaganda. *Episode 3: ''The Road to Freedom'' describes the life of the French philosopher,

. This is when the term ''

existentialism Existentialism ( ) is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence and centers on human thinking, feeling, and acting. Existentialist thinkers frequently explore issues related to the meaning, purpose, and valu ...

'' begins to enter the realm of philosophy. The documentary shows that Sartre believes it is up to each individual human being to give their own life a meaning and a purpose.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Human, All Too Human (Tv Series) BBC television documentaries Documentary films about philosophers Works about Martin Heidegger Works about Friedrich Nietzsche 1999 television films 1999 films Philosophy television series 1990s British films