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Back to SearchHoP 444 - The Dark Night Rises - Spanish Mysticism
Episode 445
Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross push the boundaries of individual spirituality and offer philosophically informed accounts of mystical experien…
1 year, 8 months ago
HoP 443 - Marketplace of Letters - Iberian Humanism
Episode 443
Fray Luis de Leon, Antonio Nebrija, Beatriz Galindo and other scholars bring the Renaissance to Spain.
1 year, 8 months ago
HoP 442 - Scott Williams on Disability and the New World
Episode 444
In this interview we learn about the main issues in modern-day philosophy of disability, and the relevance of this topic for the European encounter w…
1 year, 9 months ago
HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World
Episode 442
Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit th…
1 year, 9 months ago
HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science
Episode 441
Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chines…
1 year, 10 months ago
HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition
Episode 440
How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century.
1 year, 10 months ago
HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation
Episode 439
How the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
1 year, 11 months ago
HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy
Episode 438
An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results!
1 year, 11 months ago
HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd
Episode 437
Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of …
2 years ago
HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism
Episode 436
The cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.
2 years ago