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HoP 235 - Juhana Toivanen on Animals in Medieval Philosophy
Medieval ideas about what animals do and do not have in common with humans, and how we should treat them.
10 years, 7 months ago
HoP 234 - Your Attention Please - Peter Olivi
Peter Olivi proposes that awareness occurs not through passively being affected by things, but by actively paying attention to them.
10 years, 7 months ago
HoP 233 - Stairway to Heaven - Bonaventure
Bonaventure argues that human knowledge depends on an illumination from God.
10 years, 8 months ago
HoP 232 - Charles Burnett on Magic
Charles Burnett tells Peter about the role of magic in medieval intellectual life.
10 years, 8 months ago
HoP 231 - Origin of Species - Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon extols the power of science based on experience and uses a general theory of "species" to explain light and vision.
10 years, 8 months ago
HoP 230 - A Light That Never Goes Out - Robert Grosseteste
Translator, scientist and theologian Robert Grosseteste sheds light on the cosmos, human understanding, and the rainbow.
10 years, 8 months ago
HoP 229 - Do the Right Thing - Thirteenth Century Ethics
The scholastics explore Aristotle’s ethical teaching and the concept of moral conscience.
10 years, 9 months ago
HoP 228 - It's All Good - The Transcendentals
Philip the Chancellor introduces the transcendentals, a key idea in medieval metaphysics and aesthetics.
10 years, 9 months ago
HoP 227 - Stayin’ Alive - Thirteenth Century Psychology
John Blund and William of Auvergne draw on Aristotle and Avicenna to argue that the soul is immaterial and immortal.
10 years, 9 months ago
HoP 226 - Full of Potential - Thirteenth Century Physics
Richard Rufus and anonymous commentators on Aristotle explore the nature of motion, time, infinity and space.
10 years, 9 months ago