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Posted on: 06 December 2015

Therese Cory tells Peter what 13th century philosophers thought about self-awareness.

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Posted on: 28 November 2015

The origins of the idea of karma, its moral significance in the Upanisads, and an alternative conception in the Bhagavad-Gita.

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Posted on: 22 November 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.

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Posted on: 14 November 2015

The god Indra seeks to learn the nature of his own self from another god, Prajāpati, and receives an answer worth waiting for.

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Posted on: 08 November 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.

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Posted on: 31 October 2015

The ancient texts known as the Upaniṣads claim to expose the hidden connections between things, including the self and the world.

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Posted on: 25 October 2015

Was medieval logic "formal"? Peter finds out from Catarina Dutilh Novaes.

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Posted on: 17 October 2015

The Vedic period sets the historical context of the Upaniṣads, Buddhism and Jainism.

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Never done?

As listeners will know I am trying to include women philosophers in HoPWaG as much as possible. I reflect on this in the latest column I've contributed to the magazine Philosophy Now (which also contains a review of HoPWaG volume 1, actually).
 

This internet thing isn't so bad

I was just pondering the question of whether I could have produced this podcast series before the internet. Ok, obviously not, since podcasts require the internet; but what I mean is whether I could have put together the scripts. I decided the answer was: yes, but at a much, much slower speed, and only if I had access to a staggeringly good library. Actually I do have access to more than one staggeringly good library here in Munich and make extensive use of them.

What to expect when you're expecting Indian philosophy

Hi all - still no new episode today as the summer break continues. Instead here is a look ahead to what you can expect in the first batch of episodes on Indian philosophy (co-authored with Jonardon Ganeri), which I’ll be releasing on alternate Sundays starting Sept 20. This is a tentative list and doesn’t include the interviews we have planned.

  • Tadas
    2 days 12 hours ago

    Hello,

    Sorry for the irrelevant question, what is the music played at the beginning and end of each Indian Philosophy Podcast? Maybe it is already mentioned somewhere, but I missed it.

  • Mukesh
    5 days 14 hours ago

    I am totally unqualified to comment on this, but I guess, this separation might be more apparent in the dissenting schools which challenged the Vedic worldview, like say Lokayatas, Charvaks, or even Buddhist texts. Also, regarding Gita : Since the Mahabharata text was compiled over a period of centuries, with countless retellings, revisions, so it might be possible that the religious overtones are a product of a later phase of Vaishnavism.

  • Jaime Valles
    5 days 21 hours ago

    Thanks Peter it's a really great series. I have always interested in this relationship between dharma/ adharma and Kharma. Khrishna says he comes into the world to punish adharma. This carries with it a concept of right action, though, within the Hindu tradition this seems to have a highly nuanced meaning! Krishna’s conduct at Kuruksetra has consequences not even he can avoid.

  • PENELOPE VLASSO...
    6 days 9 hours ago

    Dear Peter,

    Just discovered this very interesting magazine thanks to you. Loved the first article, and looking forward to enjoying the rest of the series.

    Best,

    Penelope

  • Jaime Valles
    6 days 21 hours ago

    A very interesting podcast. Thinking on the Bhagavad Gita, was it not Krishna’a devotional argument that ultimately swayed Arjuna, not the metaphysical argument as to action without attachment or that related to duty based on caste. The themes of religion and philosophy are clearly deeply intertwined and not so clearly separated as in the west? Do you think religion and philosophy can be so neatly separated in the Indian tradition and if so, where is the dividing line?

  • Daniel
    1 week 8 hours ago

    I just wanted to congratulate you on coming up with your worst pun yet. "As unimpeachable as a man with a deadly fruit allergy" is beautifully, shatteringly bad - quite possibly the worst pun I have heard in my life - and I want to wish you the best of luck for your future endeavours in this regard! I am very excited to see what you will come up with, but I should perhaps also mention that even without record-winning groan-inducers, like the above one, listening to your podcast will keep me quite pleasantly entertained until you find a way to top yourself again!
    Best of Luck!^_^

  • Mukesh
    1 week 13 hours ago

    Great! Looking forward to that talk. Also, hope the other schools like Ajivika, Charvaks which were mentioned in the last episode, get some more mention in upcoming episodes too.
    And convey my thanks to Jonardan as well.

  • Mukesh
    1 week 1 day ago

    Enjoying the series so much that feel like Indra, waiting for the next episode :)
    One thing that I am really curious about is to know how these ideas and their validity kept changing with time. I mean when the Upanisads were being written, Prajapati, Indra were still the major gods, right? However, Prajapati's role gets subsumed by Brahma in later texts. Most vedic gods too become minor. And say a later day philosopher comes across this conversation between Prajapti and Indra, will it carry the same weight in his eyes?

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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." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition. 

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