Episodes

Sunday Oct 16, 2011
HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato
Sunday Oct 16, 2011
Sunday Oct 16, 2011
Peter's colleagues MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf join him for a special 50th episode interview, to discuss Aristotle's reactions to his teacher Plato

Sunday Oct 09, 2011
HoP 049 - Stage Directions - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics
Sunday Oct 09, 2011
Sunday Oct 09, 2011
In the Rhetoric and Poetics, Aristotle explores persuasive speech and engages with ancient tragedy

Sunday Oct 02, 2011
HoP 048 - Constitutional Conventions - Aristotle's Political Philosophy
Sunday Oct 02, 2011
Sunday Oct 02, 2011
Aristotle's Politics responds to Plato's Republic and sets out its own ideas about the ideal state, the types of political constitution, and the role of women and slaves

Sunday Sep 25, 2011
HoP 047 God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God
Sunday Sep 25, 2011
Sunday Sep 25, 2011
Drawing on the De Anima, On the Heavens, Physics and Metaphysics, Peter tackles Aristotle’s theory of mind and its relation to his theology.

Sunday Sep 18, 2011
HoP 046 - Dominic Scott on Aristotle's Ethics
Sunday Sep 18, 2011
Sunday Sep 18, 2011
Dominic Scott discusses Aristotle's method in his Nicomachean Ethics

Sunday Sep 11, 2011
HoP 045 - The Second Self - Aristotle On Pleasure And Friendship
Sunday Sep 11, 2011
Sunday Sep 11, 2011
What place does Aristotle leave for pleasure and friendship in his vision of the good life?

Saturday Sep 03, 2011
HoP 044 - The Goldilocks Theory - Aristotle's Ethics
Saturday Sep 03, 2011
Saturday Sep 03, 2011
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics on happiness and virtue

Sunday Jul 24, 2011
HoP 043 - Classified Information - Aristotle's Biology
Sunday Jul 24, 2011
Sunday Jul 24, 2011
In his zoology, Aristotle divides and defines all kinds of animals, and so invents the science of biology

Sunday Jul 17, 2011
HoP 042 - Soul Power - Aristotle's De Anima
Sunday Jul 17, 2011
Sunday Jul 17, 2011
Aristotle's theory of soul: its functions and how it relates to the body

Sunday Jul 10, 2011
HoP 041 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle
Sunday Jul 10, 2011
Sunday Jul 10, 2011
Richard Sorabji discusses time, eternity and mosquitos in Aristotle's Physics

Sunday Jul 03, 2011
HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
Sunday Jul 03, 2011
Sunday Jul 03, 2011
Aristotle's Physics explains change, time and place with the help of his actuality/potentiality distinction

Sunday Jun 26, 2011
HoP 039 - Form and Function - Aristotle's Four Causes
Sunday Jun 26, 2011
Sunday Jun 26, 2011
The four types of explanation: formal, material, efficient and final cause

Sunday Jun 19, 2011
HoP 038 - Down To Earth - Aristotle on Substance
Sunday Jun 19, 2011
Sunday Jun 19, 2011
Aristotle's critique of Platonic Forms and defense of his own metaphysics

Sunday Jun 12, 2011
HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge

Tuesday Jun 07, 2011
HoP 036 - A Principled Stand - Aristotle's Epistemology
Tuesday Jun 07, 2011
Tuesday Jun 07, 2011
Knowledge according to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics

Monday May 30, 2011
HoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Aristotle's Logical Works
Monday May 30, 2011
Monday May 30, 2011
Aristotle's invention of logic in the Organon (especially Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics)

Monday May 23, 2011
HoP 034 - Mr. Know It All - Aristotle's Life And Works
Monday May 23, 2011
Monday May 23, 2011
Aristotle's career, corpus and unparalleled influence

Monday May 16, 2011
HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth
Monday May 16, 2011
Monday May 16, 2011
Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues

Monday May 09, 2011
HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love
Monday May 09, 2011
Monday May 09, 2011
Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium

Monday May 02, 2011
HoP 031 - Wings of Desire - Plato's Erotic Dialogues
Monday May 02, 2011
Monday May 02, 2011
Love, friendship and philosophy in the Symposium, Phaedrus and Lysis