HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France

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HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France

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Oct 23, 2022

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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.

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Oct 23, 2022

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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". www.historyofphilosophy.net

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HoP 002 - Infinity and Beyond - Anaximander and Anaximenes: Two early Pre-Socratics claim that the world is made of air, and the infinite by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato: Peter's colleagues MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf join him for a special 50th episode interview, to discuss Aristotle's reactions to his teacher Plato by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 010 - Mind Over Mixture - Anaxagoras: Is everything mixed with everything? Anaxagoras on Mind and the cosmos by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 003 - Created In Our Image - Xenophanes Against Greek Religion: The gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the critique of Xenophanes by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 032 - Frisbee Sheffield on Platonic Love: Frisbee Sheffield discusses Plato's erotic dialogues, including the Symposium by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 030 - A Likely Story - Plato's Timaeus: A divine craftsman makes the cosmos from triangles in Plato's Timaeus by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 015 - Socrates without Plato - the Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon: Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 011 - All You Need Is Love, and Five Other Things - Empedocles: Love, Strife and the four elements in Empedocles by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 033 - Last Judgments - Plato, Poetry and Myth: Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 024 - Famous Last Words - Plato's Phaedo: Forms and the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 021 - We Don't Need No Education - Plato's Meno: The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 012 - Malcolm Schofield on the Presocratics: Malcolm Schofield on Heraclitus, Parmenides and other early Greek philosophers by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 017 - Raphael Woolf on Socrates: Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 008 - You Can't Get There From Here - Zeno And Melissus: Zeno's paradoxes and Melissus develop the Eleatic philosophy by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 058 - Reaping the Harvest - Lucretius: In "On the Nature of Things" Lucretius sets Epicureanism into Latin poetic verse by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 070 - The Know-Nothing Party - the Skeptical Academy: The Skeptical Academy attacks Stoic claims that certain knowledge is possible by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 055 - The Constant Gardener - Epicurus and his Principles: Epicurus sets out an empiricist theory of knowledge and atomist physics, in support of hedonism by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 014 - Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger - the Sophists: Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 020 - Virtue Meets Its Match - Plato's Gorgias: Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method: Hugh Benson discusses Aristotle's ideas about arriving at knowledge by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 062 - We Didn’t Start the Fire - the Stoics on Nature: The Stoic cosmos: suffused with divinity, surrounded by void, and endlessly repeating by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 040 - Let's Get Physical - Aristotle's Natural Philosophy: Aristotle's Physics explains change, time and place with the help of his actuality/potentiality distinction by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist: Fiona Leigh discusses Plato's revised theory of Forms in the Sophist by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 057 - Nothing to Fear - Epicureans on Death and the Gods: The Epicureans reassure us against the terrors of death and punishment by the gods by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 086 - Serafina Cuomo on Ancient Mathematics: How did the mathematics of figures like Euclid and Archimides relate to ancient philosophy? Peter finds out in an interview with Serafina Cuomo by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 042 - Soul Power - Aristotle's De Anima: Aristotle's theory of soul: its functions and how it relates to the body by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 059 - James Warren on Epicureanism: James Warren chats with Peter about the pleasures of Epicureanism by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 038 - Down To Earth - Aristotle on Substance: Aristotle's critique of Platonic Forms and defense of his own metaphysics by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 041 - Richard Sorabji on Time and Eternity in Aristotle: Richard Sorabji discusses time, eternity and mosquitos in Aristotle's Physics by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 109 - Spreading the Word - the Latin Church Fathers: Tertullian, Lactantius, Jerome and Ambrose use and abuse Hellenic philosophy. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 443 - Marketplace of Letters - Iberian Humanism: Fray Luis de Leon, Antonio Nebrija, Beatriz Galindo and other scholars bring the Renaissance to Spain. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 442 - Scott Williams on Disability and the New World: In this interview we learn about the main issues in modern-day philosophy of disability, and the relevance of this topic for the European encounter with the Americas. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World: Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 437 - Jennifer Rampling on Renaissance Alchemy: An expert on Renaissance alchemy tells us how this art related to philosophy at the time... and how she has tried to reproduce its results! by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 436 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores - Robert Fludd: Our last figure of the English Renaissance undertakes daring investigations of chemistry, medicine, agriculture, and cosmology – and gets accused of magic and Rosicrucianism. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 417 - To Kill a King - The Scottish Reformation: John Knox polemicizes against idolaters and female rulers, while the humanist George Buchanan argues more calmly for equally radical political conclusions. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 416 - God’s is the Quarrel - The English Reformation: 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. by History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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HoP 406 - Believe at Your Own Risk - Toleration in France

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