Episodes
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
HoP 387 - Helen Hattab on Protestant Philosophy
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
An interview with Helen Hattab on the scope and impact of scholastic philosophy among Protestants.
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
HoP 385 - I Too Can Ask Questions - Protestant Scholasticism
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
In a surprise twist, some Protestant thinkers embrace the methods of scholasticism, and even find something to admire in the work of Catholic authors like Aquinas.
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
HoP 384 - We Are Not Our Own - John Calvin
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Sunday Nov 21, 2021
John Calvin's views on predestination and the limits of human reason.
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
HoP 383 - Slowly But Surely - Huldrych Zwingli
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
Sunday Nov 07, 2021
The Swiss theologian Zwingli launches the Reformation in Switzerland, but clashes with Luther and more radical Protestants.
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
HoP 381 - More Lutheran than Luther - Philip Melanchthon
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Sunday Oct 10, 2021
Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
HoP 380 - Take Your Choice - Erasmus vs Luther on Free Will
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Erasmus clashes with Martin Luther over the question whether our wills are free or enslaved to sin.
Sunday Sep 12, 2021
HoP 379 - Lyndal Roper on Luther
Sunday Sep 12, 2021
Sunday Sep 12, 2021
How radical was Luther? We find out from Lyndal Roper, who also discusses Luther and the Peasants' War, sexuality, anti-semitism, and the visual arts.
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
HoP 378 - Faith, No More - Martin Luther
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
How Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone and his attack on the Church relate to the history of philosophy.
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
HoP 377 - One Way or Another - Northern Scholasticism
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalist theology of Gabriel Biel.
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
HoP 376 - Books That Last Forever - Erasmus
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
The “learned piety” of Desiderius Erasmus, the greatest figure of northern humanism.
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
HoP 375 - Paul Richard Blum on Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Sunday Jun 20, 2021
Learned ignorance, coincidence of opposites and religious peace: Paul Richard Blum discusses the central ideas of Nicholas Cusanus.
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
HoP 374 - Opposites Attract - Nicholas of Cusa
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
The radical negative theology of Nicholas of Cusa, and his hope of establishing peace between the religions of the world.
Sunday May 09, 2021
HoP 372 - Strong, Silent Type - the Printing Press
Sunday May 09, 2021
Sunday May 09, 2021
The impact of the printing press on the history of philosophy, and its role in helping to trigger the Reformation.
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
HoP 371 - European Disunion - Introduction to the Reformation
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
Sunday Apr 25, 2021
How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
HoP 355 - Town and Gown - Italian Universities
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people getting filthy rich.
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian Renaissance
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Tommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
HoP 347 - Bonfire of the Vanities - Savonarola
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end.
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
HoP 342 - Denis Robichaud on Plato in the Renaissance
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
Sunday Feb 09, 2020
An interview with Denis Robichaud on how, and why, Plato was read in the Italian Renaissance.
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
HoP 340 - Footnotes to Plato - Marsilio Ficino
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Marsilio Ficino’s revival of Platonism, with a focus on his proofs for the soul’s immortality in his magnum opus, the Platonic Theology.