Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoP 431 - Calvin Normore on Scholasticism
Episode 435
A discussion of the history and philosophical significance of scholasticism from medieval times to early modernity, and even today.
2 years, 11 months ago
HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism
Episode 431
The evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.
2 years, 11 months ago
HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
Episode 430
How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne L…
2 years, 11 months ago
HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
Episode 429
How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.
3 years ago
HoP 427 - Brave New World - Shakespeare’s Tempest and Colonialism
Episode 428
Can Shakespeare’s Tempest be read as a reflection on the English encounter with the peoples of the Americas?
3 years ago
HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
Episode 427
How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.
3 years, 2 months ago
HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
Episode 426
We're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel.
3 years, 2 months ago
HoP 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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 3 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.
3 years, 4 months ago