HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm
June 17th, 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.
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HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian
June 3rd, 2018
Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.
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HoP 301 - The Empire Strikes Back - Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy
May 20th, 2018
We begin to look at the third tradition of medieval philosophy, in which the heritage of classical antiquity is preserved and debated by the Byzantines.
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HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe
March 11th, 2018
New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.
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HoP 296 - Morning Star of the Reformation - John Wyclif
February 25th, 2018
John Wyclif refutes nominalism and inspires the Lollard movement, which anticipated Reformation thought with its critique of the church.
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HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson
February 11th, 2018
Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan.
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HoP 293 - The Good Wife - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages
January 14th, 2018
Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer.
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HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism
December 17th, 2017
Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.
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HoP 289 - A Wing and a Prayer - Angels in Medieval Philosophy
November 19th, 2017
Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them).
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HoP 288 - Men in Black - The German Dominicans
November 5th, 2017
Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg, John Tauler and Henry Suso explore Neoplatonism and mysticism.
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HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart
October 22nd, 2017
The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.
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HoP 286 - On the Money - Medieval Economic Theory
October 8th, 2017
Changing ideas about money, just price, and usury, up to the time of Buridan, Oresme, and Gregory of Rimini.
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HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination
April 23rd, 2017
Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.
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HoP 269 - Our Power is Real - The Clash of Church and State
January 15th, 2017
Giles of Rome and Dante on the rival claims of the church and secular rulers.
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HoP 267 - After Virtue - Marguerite Porete
December 18th, 2016
Marguerite Porete is put to death for her exploration of the love of God, The Mirror of Simple Souls.
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HoP 265 - Time of the Signs - the Fourteenth Century
November 20th, 2016
An introduction to philosophy in the 14th century, focusing on two big ideas: nominalism and voluntarism.
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HoP 264 - Giorgio Pini on Scotus on Knowledge
November 6th, 2016
Peter hears about Duns Scotus' epistemology from expert Giorgio Pini.
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HoP 262 - On Command - Scotus on Ethics
October 9th, 2016
Scotus argues that morality is a matter of freely choosing to follow God’s freely issued commands.
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HoP 261 - To Will or Not to Will - Scotus on Freedom
September 25th, 2016
Scotus develops a novel theory of free will and, along the way, rethinks the notions of necessity and possibility.
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HoP 260 - Once and for All - Scotus on Being
September 11th, 2016
Duns Scotus attacks the proposal of Aquinas and Henry of Ghent that being is subject to analogy.
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