• HoP 456 - Touch Me With Your Madness - Cervantes’ Don Quixote
    Nov 10 2024

    Why do critics consider Don Quixote the first “modern” novel, and what does it tell us about the aesthetics of fiction?

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    26 minutos
  • HoP 455 - Tom Pink on Francisco Suárez
    Oct 27 2024

    We're joined by Tom Pink, who tells us about Suárez on ethics, law, religion, and the state.

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    35 minutos
  • HoP 454 - By Appointment Only - Political Philosophy in the Second Scholastic
    Oct 13 2024

    Suárez and other Iberian scholastics ask where political power comes from and under what circumstances it is exercised legitimately.

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    17 minutos
  • HoP 453 - The Price is Right - Law and Economics in the Second Scholastic
    Sep 29 2024

    Vitoria, Molina, Suárez and others develop the idea of natural law, exploring its relevance for topics including international law, slavery, and the ethics of economic exchange.

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    18 minutos
  • HoP 452 - Better Than Nothing - Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic
    Sep 15 2024

    Did the metaphysics of Francisco Suárez mark a shift from traditional scholasticism to early modern philosophy?

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    18 minutos
  • HoP 451 - Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve - Free Will in the Second Scholastic
    Sep 1 2024

    What was Luis de Molina trying to say about human free will with his doctrine of “middle knowledge,” and why did it provoke such controversy?

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    21 minutos
  • HoP 450 - Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted - Philosophy and Two Renaissance Artworks
    Jul 21 2024

    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.

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    25 minutos
  • HoP 449 - Anna Tropia on Jesuit Philosophy
    Jul 7 2024

    We learn from Anna Tropia how Jesuit philosophy of mind broke new ground in the scholastic tradition.

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    35 minutos