HoP 307 - Consul of the Philosophers - Michael Psellos
September 9th, 2018
Michael Psellos and his attitude towards pagan philosophy and the political life.
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HoP 306 - Collectors’ Items - Photius and Byzantine Compilations
July 29th, 2018
Photius, “the inventor of the book review,” and other Byzantine scholars who preserved ancient learning.
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HoP 305 - Andrew Louth on John of Damascus
July 15th, 2018
Peter is joined by Andrew Louth for a discussion of John of Damascus and his theological use of philosophy.
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HoP 304 - Behind Enemy Lines - John of Damascus
July 1st, 2018
John of Damascus helps to shape the Byzantine understanding of humankind and the veneration of images, despite living in Islamic territory.
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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 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today
May 6th, 2018
Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.
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HoP 299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism
April 8th, 2018
Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes.
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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 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer
January 28th, 2018
Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.
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HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland
December 31st, 2017
Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”
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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 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan
July 30th, 2017
Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.
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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 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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