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458. Outsider Philosophy: The Cheese and the WormsPosted on
Carlo Ginzburg’s innovative historical study The Cheese and the Worms looks at the ideas of an obscure 16th century miller, suggesting how popular culture might be integrated into the history of philosophy.
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18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in ConfucianismPosted on
An interview about the "resonant cosmos" in early Confucianism, and the role played by music in linking sages to the universe.
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457. Take Your Medicine: Oliva Sabuco and Camilla ErculianiPosted on
Natural philosophy and medicine in the work of two unorthodox thinkers of the late sixteenth century, both of them women.
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17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian EpistemologyPosted on
The role of knowing in Confucian ethics: should it be understood as “knowing how,” or even “knowing to,” rather than “knowing that”?
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456. Touch Me With Your Madness: Cervantes’ Don QuixotePosted on
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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16. To Become or Not to Become: the Confucians on Our Moral NaturesPosted on
Morality is what makes us humans, for the Confucians: but does morality come from inside us, outside us, or both?
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455. Tom Pink on Francisco SuárezPosted on
We're joined by Tom Pink, who tells us about Suárez on ethics, freedom, law, religion, and the state.
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15. Flexing Your Moral Muscles: Xunzi on Moral CultivationPosted on
Xunzi, a thinker who shaped the course of Confucian philosophy by showing how deliberate effort can overcome our wicked natural tendencies.
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454. By Appointment Only: Political Philosophy in the Second ScholasticPosted on
Suárez and other Iberian scholastics ask where political power comes from and under what circumstances it is exercised legitimately.
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14. Every Man for Himself: Virtue and the BodyPosted on
Several ancient Chinese texts speak of an egoist and hedonist known as Yang Zhu: did he pose a coherent challenge to the Confucians and other ethicists?
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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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