Episodes
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 Jan 30, 2022
HoP 389 - The Acid Test - Theories of Matter
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Schegk, Taurellus, Gorlaeus, and Sennert revive atomism to explain chemical reactions, the composition of bodies, and the generation of organisms.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Paracelsus adapts the tradition of alchemical science for use in medicine, and in the process overturns the scientific theories of Aristotle and Galen.
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 19, 2021
HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa a dark magician, a pious skeptic, or both?
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 Oct 24, 2021
HoP 382 - No Lord but God - the Peasants’ War and Radical Reformation
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Sunday Oct 24, 2021
Faced with massive political upheaval and the rise of the Anabaptists, Luther argues for a socially conservative version of the Reformation.
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 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 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 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 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 Mar 28, 2021
HoP 369 - The Harder They Fall - Galileo and the Renaissance
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
HoP 368 - Boundless Enthusiasm - Giordano Bruno
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
HoP 367 - Brian Copenhaver on Renaissance Magic
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
HoP 366 - The Men Who Saw Tomorrow - Renaissance Magic and Astrology
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.