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Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Moral Luck (1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.
As Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams became known internationally for his attempt to reorient the study of moral philosophy to history and culture, politics and psychology, and in particular to the Greeks. Described as an analytic philosopher with the soul of a humanist, he saw himself as a synthesist, drawing together ideas from fields that seemed increasingly unable to communicate with one another. He rejected scientism, and scientific or evolutionary reductionism, calling "morally unimaginative" reductionists "the people I really do dislike." For Williams, complexity was irreducible, beautiful, and meaningful.
Actors: Elliot Weaver (producer), Zander Weaver (director), Elliot Weaver (director), Zander Weaver (producer), Marc Baylis (actor), Luke Johansen (actor), Stephanie Ellis-Gray (actress), Lauren Morris (actress), Seb Heaven (actor), Andrew Ford-Stanton (actor), Chris Duncan (composer), Mark Heath (composer), Michael Fletcher (actor), Andrew Caddy (actor),
Plot: The Great War, it was said, was the war to end all wars. The Price of Freedom tells the story of one British soldier surrounded by the realities of war, searching for his own moral answers, told through the emotive poetry of the First World War. The Great War Poets painted a vivid picture of the inner war that every soldier fights within himself. A war in which man discovers the true cost of sacrifice, a true loss of faith and the true fragility of life. Locked within their poetry is that truth; a soldier's realisation that no-one would ever understand what was asked of him and an experience of fear as he had never before known. Using the emotive works of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Gibson, Rupert Brooke and John McCrae, The Price of Freedom presents the sentiment of a generation defined by its courage and torn by its sacrifice, in a story seen through the eyes of just one soldier, but told from the hearts of every man who fought when the world first went to war.
Genres: Drama, Short,