Episodes
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
We're joined by Patrick Gray to discuss Shakespeare's knowledge of philosophy, his ethics, and his influence on such thinkers as Hegel.
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
HoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
How should we approach Shakespeare’s plays as philosophical texts? We take as examples skepticism and politics in Othello, King Lear, and Julius Caesar.
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
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 Queene".
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
HoP 401 - Word Perfect - Logic and Language in Renaissance France
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and Julius Caesar Scaliger fuse Aristotelianism with humanism to address problems in logic and literary aesthetics.
Sunday May 22, 2022
HoP 397 - Do As the Romans Did - French Humanism
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
We begin to look at philosophy in Renaissance France, beginning with humanists like Budé and the use of classical philosophy by poets du Bellay and Ronsard.
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
HoP 395 - Music of the Spheres - Johannes Kepler
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
HoP 370 - Ingrid Rowland on Rome in the Renaissance
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
Sunday Dec 06, 2020
The humanist study of Pythagoras, Archimides and other ancient mathematicians goes hand in hand with the use of mathematics in painting and architecture.
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
HoP 341 - True Romance - Theories of Love
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo, and Tullia d’Aragona.
Sunday Jun 02, 2019
HoP 326 - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - the Later Orthodox Tradition
Sunday Jun 02, 2019
Sunday Jun 02, 2019
When the Byzantine empire ended in 1453, philosophy in Greek did not end with it. In this episode we bring the story up to the 20th century.
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
HoP 311 - The Elements of Style - Rhetoric in Byzantium
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Psellos and other experts in rhetoric explore how this art of persuasion relates to philosophy.
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
HoP 304 - Behind Enemy Lines - John of Damascus
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
John of Damascus helps to shape the Byzantine understanding of humankind and the veneration of images, despite living in Islamic territory.
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.