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HoP 301 - The Empire Strikes Back - Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
Episode 62
We begin to look at the third tradition of medieval philosophy, in which the heritage of classical antiquity is preserved and debated by the Byzantin…
7 years, 10 months ago
HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
Episode 61
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
7 years, 10 months ago
HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today
Episode 60
Rachel Barney, Christof Rapp, and Mark Kalderon join Peter to discuss the importance of ancient philosophy for today's philosophers.
7 years, 11 months ago
HoP 299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism
Episode 58
Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes.
7 years, 11 months ago
Africana Philosophy Announcement
Episode 59
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7 years, 11 months ago
HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch
Episode 57
The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.
7 years, 11 months ago
HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe
Episode 56
New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.
8 years ago
HoP 296 - Morning Star of the Reformation - John Wyclif
Episode 55
John Wyclif refutes nominalism and inspires the Lollard movement, which anticipated Reformation thought with its critique of the church.
8 years ago
HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson
Episode 54
Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the R…
8 years, 1 month ago
HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer
Episode 53
Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.
8 years, 1 month ago