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Reith Revisited: Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer

The Reith Lectures

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Is There a Balance Between Individual Freedom and Collective Responsibility?

i is one of the only overtly political moments in the lectures actually, where he directly attacks communism as a philosophy. He believes very strongly that the balance between individual freedom and collective responsibility is not something to be fought about. This is not a black and white question, is that you can't have one or the other. And this is in the context of communism in the fifties, when people are building societies like the one that became east germany.

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