Posted on 7 October 2012
Neoplatonism had a long-standing association with traditional Greek religion. How did philosophers respond when Christians gained ascendancy?
9 commentsPosted on 13 October 2013
Why did al-Ghazālī judge "the philosophers" to be apostates? Peter finds out from Frank Griffel.
9 commentsPosted on 16 February 2014
Maimonides’ works provoke a bitter dispute among Jews in France and Spain over the relation of philosophy to Judaism.
10 commentsPosted on 13 March 2016
Two rounds of condemnations at Paris declare certain philosophical teachings as heretical. But what were the long term effects?
0 commentsPosted on 5 January 2020
David Walker defends violent resistance in his incendiary and influential Appeal.
3 commentsPosted on 19 April 2020
The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end.
5 commentsPosted on 25 October 2020
Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo debate the immortality of the soul and the cogency of Averroes’ theory of intellect.
7 commentsPosted on 14 March 2021
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
6 commentsPosted on 11 April 2021
For our finale of the Italian Renaissance series we're joined by Ingrid Rowland, to speak about art, philosophy, and persecution in Renaissance Rome.
9 commentsPosted on 9 May 2021
The impact of the printing press on the history of philosophy, and its role in helping to trigger the Reformation.
17 commentsPosted on 19 September 2021
The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance.
2 commentsPosted on 24 October 2021
Faced with massive political upheaval and the rise of the Anabaptists, Luther argues for a socially conservative version of the Reformation.
4 commentsPosted on 7 November 2021
The Swiss theologian Zwingli launches the Reformation in Switzerland, but clashes with Luther and more radical Protestants.
2 commentsPosted on 13 February 2022
Amidst religious conflict in the Netherlands, Dirck Coornhert pleads for religious toleration and freedom of expression.
6 commentsPosted on 23 October 2022
Even as wars of religion in France prompt calls for toleration, hardly anyone makes a principled case for freedom of conscience… apart from Sebastian Castellio.
0 commentsPosted on 6 November 2022
An interview on the nature of religious tolerance, and the forms it took during the Reformation and in the thought of early modern thinkers like Locke and Leibniz.
Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London.
4 commentsPosted on 11 March 2023
The historical context of English philosophy in the sixteenth century, with particular focus on Thomas Cranmer, and the role of religion in personal conscience and social cohesion.
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Posted on 6 November 2011
In this episode we unleash the most outrageous ancient philosophers, Diogenes and the Cynics, and their quest to “deface the currency” by exposing the hypocrisy of Greek society.
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