Podcast Episodes

HoP 049 - Stage Directions - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics

In the Rhetoric and Poetics, Aristotle explores persuasive speech and engages with ancient tragedy

14 years, 11 months ago

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HoP 048 - Constitutional Conventions - Aristotle's Political Philosophy

Aristotle's Politics responds to Plato's Republic and sets out its own ideas about the ideal state, the types of political constitution, and the role…

14 years, 11 months ago

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HoP 047 God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God

Drawing on the De Anima, On the Heavens, Physics and Metaphysics, Peter tackles Aristotle’s theory of mind and its relation to his theology.

15 years ago

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HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics

Dominic Scott discusses Aristotle's method in his Nicomachean Ethics

15 years ago

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HoP 045 - The Second Self - Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship

What place does Aristotle leave for pleasure and friendship in his vision of the good life?

15 years ago

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HoP 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle's Ethics

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue

15 years ago

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HoP 043 - Classified Information - Aristotle's Biology

In his zoology, Aristotle divides and defines all kinds of animals, and so invents the science of biology

15 years, 2 months ago

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HoP 042 - Soul Power - Aristotle's De Anima

Aristotle's theory of soul: its functions and how it relates to the body

15 years, 2 months ago

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HoP 041 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle

Richard Sorabji discusses time, eternity and mosquitos in Aristotle's Physics

15 years, 2 months ago

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HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

Aristotle's Physics explains change, time and place with the help of his actuality/potentiality distinction

15 years, 2 months ago

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