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Back to SearchHoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare
Episode 425
How should we approach Shakespeare’s plays as philosophical texts? We take as examples skepticism and politics in Othello, King Lear, and Julius Caes…
2 years, 6 months ago
HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
Episode 424
We begin to look at Elizabethan literature, as Sidney argues that poetry is superior to philosophy, and philosophy is put to use in Spenser’s "Fairie…
2 years, 7 months ago
HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker
Episode 423
Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.
2 years, 7 months ago
HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought
Episode 421
The evolution of ideas about kingship and the role of the “three estates” in 15th and 16th century England, with a focus on John Fortescue and Thomas…
2 years, 7 months ago
HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More
Episode 422
What is the message of the famous, but elusive, work "Utopia", and how can it be squared with the life of its author?
2 years, 8 months ago
HoP 419 - Write Till Your Ink Be Dry - Humanism in Britain
Episode 420
Humanism comes to England and Scotland, leading scholars like Thomas Eylot and Andrew Melville to rethink philosophical education.
2 years, 8 months ago
HoP 418 - Diarmaid MacCulloch on the British Reformations
Episode 419
A leading expert on the history of the Reformation joins us to explain the very different stories of England and Scotland in the 16th century.
2 years, 9 months ago
HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation
Episode 418
John Knox polemicizes against idolaters and female rulers, while the humanist George Buchanan argues more calmly for equally radical political conclu…
2 years, 9 months ago
HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation
Episode 417
The historical context of English philosophy in the sixteenth century, with particular focus on Thomas Cranmer, and the role of religion in personal …
2 years, 10 months ago
HoP 415 - The Tenth Muse - Marie de Gournay
Episode 415
Marie le Jars de Gourney, the “adoptive daughter” of Montaigne, lays claim to his legacy and argues for the equality of the sexes.
2 years, 10 months ago