What to expect when you're expecting the Catholic Reformation
Ok, here is a preview of what I'll be covering in the upcoming series on the Catholic Reformation (aka the Counter-Reformation) which will mostly focus on Iberia (=Spain and Portugal) with some glances back at Italy. As usual in these previews, I haven't listed interviews here.
The series will kick of on January 28, with episode 438, an introduction to this mini-series. With interviews it will take most of 2024, and then we're on to the 17th-18th centuries finally (starting with France and the Low Countries).
Introduction to the Catholic Reformation
The Inquisition
Exploration and Science
The Valladoid Debate
Spanish humanism
Spanish mysticism
The rise of the Jesuits
Thomism
Introduction to Spanish Scholasticism (SS)
Political and legal theory in SS
Natural law theory in SS
Metaphysics in SS
Luis de Molina
Foreknowledge and free will in SS
Francisco Suárez
Oliva Sabuco
Cervantes
Velasquez (yes, I mean the painter)
"Outsider" Philosophy (The Cheese and the Worms)
Galileo
In reply to The inquisition? by Spencer
Monty Python
I was already wondering how many variations on that joke I can allow myself.
No "Life Is a Dream"?
Dear Peter, I am delighted! Thank you very much for this preview! I was just wondering if you will cover the highly philosophical work of Pedro Calderón de la Barca. After five episodes on Shakespeare I think it is just fair to devote one whole episode to his fellow philosopher-dramatist from Spain.
Again, many thanks your work!
de la Barca
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check him out. I was sort of thinking that Cervantes would be the analogous figure in this series, but that wouldn't rule it out.
And in the non-Western sphere?
Just curious! I have so thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of this horizon-broadening podcast (and the books), that I can’t wait to see where you go once the Africana is concluded. It’s all been just amazing, and I can’t wait.
In reply to And in the non-Western sphere? by Matt
After Africana
In February we are moving on to classical China! I will post a tentative episode list for that too, in the next couple of months.
In reply to After Africana by Peter Adamson
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Fantastic!
I was wondering whether (and hoping) that might be the next stop! Such marvelously comprehensive work. Thanks again!
Race
Beyond the episode on the Valladolid Debate, is there going to be any coverage of thought about race/ethnicity in early modern Spain/the Spanish Americas? It seems that this would fall under the purview of the podcast and, if anything, constitutes a bit of a "gap" in the coverage of the Middle Ages (it might have been nice to have an episode or two on medieval European attitudes towards race/ethnicity).
In reply to Race by Burt
Spanish Americas
Actually what I am hoping to do is to have a whole series on Philosophy in the Americas at some point in the future, looking at the topic you mention of course as well a Native American, Mesoamerican, and Latin American philosophy. You're right that I could/should have said more about it in the medieval period, this is a topic that is a lot higher on my radar nowadays after doing the Africana series.
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The inquisition?
I have to say, I'm surprised...because, as you know, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!