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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Sunday Feb 28, 2016
Sunday Feb 28, 2016
Scott MacDonald joins Peter to discuss Thomas Aquinas' views on human knowledge.
Sunday Feb 14, 2016
Sunday Feb 14, 2016
Aquinas follows medieval legal thinkers in defining the conditions under which war may be justified, and proposes his famous doctrine of double effect.
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Natural law and political legitimacy in thirteenth century thinkers up to and including Thomas Aquinas.
Sunday Jan 17, 2016
Sunday Jan 17, 2016
Natural and supernatural virtue and happiness in Thomas Aquinas and his teacher, Albert the Great.
Sunday Jan 03, 2016
Sunday Jan 03, 2016
Thomas Aquinas makes controversial claims concerning the unity of the soul and the empirical basis of human knowledge.
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
Sunday Dec 20, 2015
An introduction to Thomas Aquinas, his views on faith and reason, and his famous “five ways” of proving God’s existence.
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Sunday Dec 06, 2015
Therese Cory tells Peter what Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas thought about self-awareness.
Sunday Nov 22, 2015
Sunday Nov 22, 2015
Albert the Great’s theory of being and his attempt to explain what changes in the human mind when we come to see God in the afterlife.
Sunday Nov 08, 2015
Sunday Nov 08, 2015
Albert the Great earns his nickname “universal doctor” by devoting himself to the whole of nature, from geology and botany to the study of human nature.
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Sunday Oct 25, 2015
Was medieval logic "formal"? Peter finds out from Catarina Dutilh Novaes.
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Sunday Oct 11, 2015
Robert Kilwardby is infamous for his ban on teaching certain philosophical ideas at Oxford, yet made contributions in logic and on the soul.
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Two Beguine authors, Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg, deploy the tropes of courtly love in vernacular writings about their mystical experiences.
Saturday Sep 19, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Bonaventure and Peter Olivi respond to critics of the Franciscan vow of poverty, in a debate which produced new ideas about economics and rights.
Sunday Aug 02, 2015
Sunday Aug 02, 2015
Medieval ideas about what animals do and do not have in common with humans, and how we should treat them.
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Peter Olivi proposes that awareness occurs not through passively being affected by things, but by actively paying attention to them.
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Bonaventure argues that human knowledge depends on an illumination from God.
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Sunday Jul 12, 2015
Charles Burnett tells Peter about the role of magic in medieval intellectual life.
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Sunday Jul 05, 2015
Roger Bacon extols the power of science based on experience and uses a general theory of "species" to explain light and vision.
Sunday Jun 28, 2015
Sunday Jun 28, 2015
Translator, scientist and theologian Robert Grosseteste sheds light on the cosmos, human understanding, and the rainbow.