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Back to SearchHoP 380 - Take Your Choice - Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will
Episode 380
Erasmus clashes with Martin Luther over the question whether our wills are free or enslaved to sin.
4 years, 5 months ago
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
Episode 379
How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts…
4 years, 6 months ago
HoP 378 - Faith, No More - Martin Luther
Episode 378
How Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and his attack on the Church relate to the history of philosophy.
4 years, 7 months ago
HoP 377 - One Way or Another - Northern Scholasticism
Episode 377
Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalis…
4 years, 8 months ago
HoP 376 - Books That Last Forever - Erasmus
Episode 376
The “learned piety” of Desiderius Erasmus, the greatest figure of northern humanism.
4 years, 8 months ago
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
Episode 375
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
4 years, 9 months ago
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
Episode 374
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
4 years, 9 months ago
HoP 373 - Lords of Language - Northern Humanism
Episode 373
Rudolph Agricola, Juan Luis Vives and other humanist scholars spread the study of classical antiquity across Europe and mock the technicalities of sc…
4 years, 10 months ago
HoP 372 - Strong, Silent Type - the Printing Press
Episode 372
The impact of the printing press on the history of philosophy, and its role in helping to trigger the Reformation.
4 years, 10 months ago
HoP 371 - European Disunion - Introduction to the Reformation
Episode 371
How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.
4 years, 10 months ago