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Back to SearchHoP 411 - Pen Pals - Later French Humanism
Episode 411
Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, and Guillaume du Vair grapple with history and the events of their own day.
3 years, 8 months ago
HoP 410 - Ann Blair on Jean Bodin’s Natural Philosophy
Episode 413
A chat with Ann Blair about the "Theater of Nature" by Jean Bodin, and other encyclopedic works of natural philosophy.
3 years, 9 months ago
HoP 409 - One to Rule Them All - Jean Bodin
Episode 409
The polymath Jean Bodin produces a pioneering theory of political sovereignty along the way to defending the absolute power of the French king.
3 years, 9 months ago
HoP 408 - Constitutional Conventions - the Huguenots
Episode 408
Protestant French thinkers like François Hotman and Theodore Beza propose a radical political philosophy: the king rules at the pleasure of his subje…
3 years, 10 months ago
HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
Episode 410
An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Lock…
3 years, 10 months ago
HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France
Episode 407
Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian…
3 years, 11 months ago
HoP 405 - Divide and Conquer - the Spread of Ramism
Episode 404
The methods of Peter Ramus sweep across Europe, winning adherents and facing stiff opposition in equal measure.
3 years, 11 months ago
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
Episode 406
A chat with Ramus expert Robert Goulding on the role of mathematics in Ramist philosophy.
4 years ago
HoP 403 - Make It Simple - Peter Ramus
Episode 403
Peter Ramus scandalizes his critics, and thrills his students and admirers, by proposing a new and simpler approach to philosophy.
4 years ago
Bonus Episode: Don’t Think for Yourself, Chapter 1
Episode 405
Peter reads the first chapter of his new book Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy, available from University of Not…
4 years, 1 month ago