Danielle Layne - Platonic Priestesses: Erotic Pedagogy from Antiquity to the Present

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Danielle Layne of Gonzaga University delivers a keynote address at the conference "Women Intellectuals in Antiquity" held at Keble College Oxford in February 2020. This event was organized by myself, Ursula Coope, Katharine O'Reilly and Jenny Rallens. It was supported by Keble College Oxford, the British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), Oxford University, the Department of Classics at King's College London, and the LMU in Munich. 

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dukeofethereal on 12 October 2024

Missing themes from regular episodes (Western + Non Western)

Thanks here are some episodes that don't have themes attached.

What I have seen were some of the episodes you dedicated looking at certain Philosophers life and their works

https://historyofphilosophy.net/plato-life

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/aristotle-life-works

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/plotinus-life

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/avicenna-life-works

 

 

They should have a 'Literature' theme since you look at their entire works.

Maybe 'historical context' theme too since you are looking at their  lives ?

 

You could also add other themes attached to their body of works such as 'Ethics' 'Political Philosophy' etc..

 

Here are the missing themes from the non-Western feed

https://historyofphilosophy.net/introduction-indian-philosophy

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/africana-introduction

 

That's it, if you add themes to these episodes then your entire list of episodes would have themes attached making it easier to select when using the Themes tab, making it complete.

 

 

 

 

 

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Peter Adamson on 13 October 2024

Themes

Right thanks for the tip - I think probably "historical context" is the right theme for all these, except maybe Plato; I think of the "literature" theme as referring to authors and texts that are often considered more as belonging to the study of literature like Dante and Shakespeare.

dukeofethereal on 13 October 2024

3 Questions, 1 being Missing episode and the other 2 on future

I have 3 questions professor

 

1. This is the last episode with 0 themes attached professor, a Bonus episode.

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sophia-connell-women%E2%80%99s-medical-knowledge-antiquity-beyond-midwifery

 

Attach the following tags Professor if they fit the episode 

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/themes/women-and-gender

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/themes/love-and-sexuality

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/themes/medicine

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/themes/sciences-eg-astronomy-optics-zoology

 

https://historyofphilosophy.net/themes/women-and-gender

 

With that all your episodes would have a theme attached. Thanks for your service Professor 

 

2nd Question - do we expect to see more episodes in the future that start with 'Life and Works' for major figures in 17th-18th Century like you did with Plotinus, Plato, Avicenna and Aristotle, etc.. in the past for major heavyweights such as Descartes/Spinoza/Hobbes/Leibniz/Locke/Hume/Berkeley, etc..  or we won't due to the amount of episodes you will have to cram to fit in those timelines due to extra material in these era compared to earlier eras?

 

3rd Question - I don't know how deep you will go regarding Major figures, I'm sure there will be an episode threshold you'll try to hit? I'm very curious on your France-Low Countries tentative list of episodes, also how many content can we expect from Iberia/Italy in this series ?

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Peter Adamson on 13 October 2024

Three answers

Ok thanks for the note on that un-themed episode, gender and medicine are definitely relevant! I'll add that.

I will certainly have life and works episodes for the big hitters like Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Leibniz etc. I might sometimes already weave a central philosophical theme into those also to help get through the material but I can't imagine just skipping the biographical orientation.

And boy, I wish I had a list to show you for the France/Low Countries series! I'll definitely post it ahead of time but I am guessing it may not be until January because I still have a lot of thinking to do. But I did get a lot of input from the audience on potential topics and have already started reading ahead; I have a very messy and unordered list so far, nothing better thought out than that. It's exciting but daunting! 

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