After summer break
Following the usual summer break, where the podcast goes silent in August, we will return to normal service on Sunday September 4. As previously, episodes on Indian philosophy and medieval philosophy will alternate. Both of the new episodes are particularly exciting: on Advaita Vedanta and the first Scotus episode, respectively!
Scotus is actually getting no fewer than five episodes, because he is so fantastic and in my opinion the figure who really lays the groundwork for the 14th century in many ways. The episodes will look at his view on the nature of being, in comparison to the view of Aquinas and others; on his theory of freedom and the will; his ethics; his account of universals and individuality; and and interview with Giorgio Pini. That will end the 13th century, then it's onto the homestretch of medieval which will take us through the 14th century, with figures like Dante, Ockham, Buridan, and Julian of Norwich to look forward to.
As for India, we'll continue marching on through the Vedic tradition: for Vedanta we will look not only at Śankara's Advaita Vedanta but also the grammatical theories of the sort-of-Vedantin Bhartrihari, followed by an interview with world-leading Indian philosophy expert Francis Clooney (super excited to have him on the show). Then on to Samkhya, who have a cool theory about how all things evolve from matter, and Yoga (another great interview guest on that, Philipp Maas).
So, lots to look forward to! Hope you will join me for all of it.
In reply to should you have an interest, by Stephen Lahey
Wow, that sounds very
Wow, that sounds very interesting. I would love to cover that, at least in passing... can you perhaps send me an email so we can talk about it further? I am sure I'd benefit from your advice. My email is peter.adamson@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.
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should you have an interest,
should you have an interest, I am doing research in a previously poorly researched area, namely 15th century Czech reception of Wyclif's philosophy. the interesting part is that the doctrine of divine ideas, received from Wyclif but inspired by Guillames de Conches, led directly to the Hussite conception of the church, which in turn led to the Hussite revolution. It is a rare case in which scholastic philosophy touched off a full scale war (that probably would have happened anyhow.) This is not widely studied outside of a very small range of Czech scholars, but may be of interest to people wondring about the transition from late medieval to modern thought. Best wishes, Stephen Lahey