Episodes

Sunday Jan 15, 2023
HoP 412 - Not Matter, But Me - Michel de Montaigne
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
In his “Essays” Montaigne uses his wit, insight, and humanist training to tackle his favorite subject: Montaigne.

Sunday Nov 06, 2022
HoP 407 - Maria Rosa Antognazza on Early Modern Toleration
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.

Sunday Oct 23, 2022
HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.

Sunday Jun 05, 2022
HoP 398 - Pearls of Wisdom - Marguerite of Navarre
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
A Renaissance queen supports philosophical humanism and produces literary works on spirituality, love, and the soul.

Saturday Mar 12, 2022
HoP 392 - John Sellars on Lipsius and Early Modern Stoicism
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
John Sellars returns to the podcast to discuss Lipsius' work on Seneca and the early modern Neo-Stoic movement.

Sunday Feb 13, 2022
HoP 390 - Born to Be Contrary - Toleration in the Netherlands
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.

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 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 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 May 23, 2021
HoP 373 - Lords of Language - Northern Humanism
Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
Rudolph Agricola, Juan Luis Vives and other humanist scholars spread the study of classical antiquity across Europe and mock the technicalities of scholastic philosophy.

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 Oct 25, 2020
HoP 358 - Of Two Minds - Pomponazzi and Nifo on the Intellect
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Sunday Oct 25, 2020
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.

Sunday Oct 11, 2020
HoP 357 - David Lines on Aristotle's Ethics in the Renaissance
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
An interview with David Lines on the role of Aristotle in Renaissance ethics.

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 Jun 28, 2020
HoP 352 - The Teacher of Our Actions - Renaissance Historiography
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Bruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.

Sunday Jun 14, 2020
HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.

Sunday May 17, 2020
HoP 349 - No More Mr Nice Guy - Machiavelli
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
Machiavelli’s seminal work of political advice, "The Prince," tells the ruler how to be strong like a lion and cunning like a fox.