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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.
11 years, 3 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.
11 years, 3 months ago
HoP 229 - Do the Right Thing - Thirteenth Century Ethics
The scholastics explore Aristotle’s ethical teaching and the concept of moral conscience.
11 years, 3 months ago
HoP 228 - It's All Good - The Transcendentals
Philip the Chancellor introduces the transcendentals, a key idea in medieval metaphysics and aesthetics.
11 years, 3 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.
11 years, 4 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.
11 years, 4 months ago
HoP 225 - No Uncertain Terms - Thirteenth Century Logic
The terminist logicians William of Sherwood and Peter of Spain classify the various ways that language can relate to the world.
11 years, 4 months ago
HoP 224 - Kent Emery on Institutions of Learning
Kent Emery joins Peter to discuss the effects of monastic and university culture on medieval philosophy.
11 years, 4 months ago
HoP 223 - Straw Men - The Rise of the Universities
The emergence of universities in Paris, Oxford, Bologna and elsewhere provide the main setting for medieval philosophy in the 13th century and beyond.
11 years, 5 months ago
HoP 222 - Rediscovery Channel - Translations into Latin
Greek and Arabic sources are rendered into Latin in a translation movement that will revolutionize medieval philosophy.
11 years, 5 months ago