Episodes
![HoP 450 - Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted - Philosophy and Two Renaissance Artworks](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
7 days ago
7 days ago
To celebrate reaching 450 episodes, Peter looks at the philosophical resonance of two famous artworks from the turn of the 16th century: Dürer’s Self-Portrait and Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel.
![HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”
![HoP 447 - Andrés Messmer on Spanish Protestantism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
HoP 447 - Andrés Messmer on Spanish Protestantism
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Yes, there were Spanish Protestants! Andrew (Andrés) Messmer joins us to explain how they drew on humanism and philosophy to argue for their religious agenda.
![HoP 445 - Band of Brothers - the Jesuits](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 12, 2024
HoP 445 - Band of Brothers - the Jesuits
Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy.
![HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
![HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
HoP 440 - Longitudinal Studies - Exploration and Science
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Sunday Mar 03, 2024
Iberian expeditions to the Americas inspire scientists, and Matteo Ricci’s religious mission to Asia becomes an encounter between European and Chinese philosophy.
![HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
HoP 439 - Cancel Culture - The Inquisition
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
How religious persecution and censorship shaped the context of philosophy in Catholic Europe in the sixteenth century.
![HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
HoP 438 - Don't Give Up Pope - Catholic Reformation
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
How the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation created a context for philosophy among Catholics, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
![HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of magic and Rosicrucianism.
![HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
HoP 435 - Metal More Attractive - William Gilbert and Magnetism
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
The cosmological and methodological implications of breakthroughs in the understanding of magnetism and electricity at the turn of the 17th century.
![HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
HoP 430 - I’ll Teach You Differences - British Scholasticism
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
The evolution of Aristotelian philosophy from John Mair in the late 15th century to John Case in the late 16th century.
![HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
HoP 429 - She Uttereth Piercing Eloquence - Women’s Spiritual Literature
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock.
![HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
HoP 428 - Weird Sisters - Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Witchcraft
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
How Macbeth reflects the anxieties and explanations surrounding witchcraft and witch-hunting in early modern Europe.
![HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
How the Renaissance turn towards individual identity is reflected in Shakespeare's most famous play.
![HoP 425 - Patrick Gray on Shakespeare](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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.
![HoP 424 - Hast Any Philosophy In Thee? - William Shakespeare](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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.
![HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
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".
![HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 28, 2023
HoP 422 - The World’s Law - Richard Hooker
Sunday May 28, 2023
Sunday May 28, 2023
Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law.
![HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 14, 2023
HoP 421 - With Such Perfection Govern - English Political Thought
Sunday May 14, 2023
Sunday May 14, 2023
The evolution of ideas about kingship and the role of the “three estates” in 15th and 16th century England, with a focus on John Fortescue and Thomas Starkey.
![HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/697911/HistoryofPhilosophy-1400_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 07, 2023
HoP 420 - No Place Will Please Me So - Thomas More
Sunday May 07, 2023
Sunday May 07, 2023
What is the message of the famous, but elusive, work "Utopia", and how can it be squared with the life of its author?