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Back to SearchHistory of Ideas Club: Rome: From Empire to Republic (and Back Again)
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How did Rome move from kingship to republic, and from republic to empire? In this episode, we explore the political evolution of Rome…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
History of Ideas Club: 'And the Word Became Flesh…’: Christianity’s Emergence and Impact
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Christianity emerged from a world already shaped by Jewish law and Greek philosophy, yet it introduced one of the most radical ideas …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
History of Ideas Club: Disraeli and Oakeshott
Season 2
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💭 Can politics be an art of belonging rather than a science of control? In this final instalment of the Heritage Series, Samuel Wooda…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
History of Ideas Club: Roger Scruton
Season 2
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💭 Can conservatism be a culture of love rather than fear? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores the life and thought of Sir Roger Sc…
1 year ago
History of Ideas Club: Edmund Burke and the Romantic Poets
Season 2
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💭 Can feeling and imagination preserve what reason alone cannot? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores how Edmund Burke’s political …
1 year ago
History of Ideas Club: Joseph de Maistre
Season 2
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Welcome to the third instalment of our Heritage Series, part of the History of Ideas Reading Club, hosted by Jack Thomson (MA Philoso…
1 year, 1 month ago
History of Ideas Club: Augustine's City of God
Season 2
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In this episode of the History of Ideas Club, Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham) leads a discussion on St Augusti…
1 year, 1 month ago
Plato's Republic
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Is justice something we value for itself, or only for what it gets us? Plato's Republic is where Western political philosophy starts …
1 year, 1 month ago
History of Ideas Club: Plato's Republic
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In this History of Ideas Club session, we turn to one of the foundational texts of Western political thought: Plato’s Republic. Writt…
1 year, 2 months ago
Rawls and Sandel
Season 2 Episode 36
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Rawls built a theory of justice from behind a "veil of ignorance." Sandel spent a career arguing it left something essential out. Thi…
1 year, 5 months ago