Emotion and sentiment
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Peter looks at one of Aristotle’s most popular works, the Nicomachean Ethics, and its ideas about happiness and virtue.
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Peter starts to explore the Roman Stoics, beginning with Seneca and the Stoic attitude towards the emotions.
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Martin Pickavé returns to the podcast to talk about theories of the emotions in Aquinas, Scotus and Wodeham.
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Ignatius Sancho and Benjamin Banneker make their mark on the history of Africana thought through letters that reflect on the power of sentiment.
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Humanists from Bruni and Valla to Pontano and Castiglione ask whether ancient ethical teachings can still help us learn how to live.
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An interview with Sabrina Ebbersmeyer about the relation of emotion to reason and the body, and panpsychism, in the Renaissance.
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Refutation of misogyny in Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella.
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In two speeches marking holidays, Frederick Douglass champions the idea of world citizenship, the power of appeals to conscience to bring change, and the role of violence.
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Leopold Senghor compares different ways of knowing while developing his theory of Negritude and combining the roles of poet and politician.
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An interview about the role of the emotions, including anger and feelings of dignity, in the non-violent protest campaign of King.
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In poetry and prose, especially her collection Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde explores ideas of difference, eroticism, and feminist theory.
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How women’s writing in England changed from the early fifteenth century, the time of Margery Kempe, to the late sixteenth century, the time of Anne Lock.
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Cornel West joins us to look back on the development of his thought and the many authors who have inspired him.
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In this interview, we learn how newly discovered texts are changing our understanding of Warring States period philosophy.
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Confucianism puts relationships with family members at the core of their ethical thinking. Is this a strength or a weakness?
