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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
Hosted by Peter Adamson · EN
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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HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
2d ago00:23:01Summary readyLa Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic?
SummaryHoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
2w ago00:21:18Summary readyHow the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy.
SummaryHoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
May 300:21:18Summary readyHow philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.”
SummaryHoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
Apr 1900:19:05Summary readyArnauld’s attack on Malebranche’s theory of the “vision in God” leads to a nuanced debate over the nature of ideas.
SummaryHoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
Apr 500:32:15Summary readyWhat inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.
SummaryHoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
Mar 2200:21:17Summary readyWhat led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?
SummaryHoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
Mar 800:19:34Summary readyWe begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy.
SummaryHoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
Feb 2200:21:58Summary readyAntoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes.
SummaryHoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
Feb 800:19:32Summary readyAntoine Arnauld combines Cartesian philosophy with Jansenism, one of the most controversial religious movements of the 17th century.
SummaryHoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
Jan 2500:38:41Summary readyAn interview on contemporary approaches to Pascal's Wager: where decision theory meets philosophy of religion.
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