The prophetic preacher Girolamo Savonarola attacks pagan philosophy and puts forward his own political ideas, before coming to an untimely end.

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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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Folge vom 19.04.2020HoP 347 - Bonfire of the Vanities - Savonarola
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Folge vom 05.04.2020HoP 346 - Cecilia Muratori on Animals in the RenaissanceAn interview with Cecilia Muratori, an expert on the surprisingly modern ideas about non-human animals that emerged in the Renaissance.
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Folge vom 22.03.2020HoP 345 - What a Piece of Work is Man - Manetti and Pico on Human NaturePico della Mirandola and Giannozzo Manetti praise humans as the centerpiece of the created world. But what about the other animals?
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Folge vom 08.03.2020HoP 344 - The Count of Concord - Pico della MirandolaPico della Mirandola argues for the harmony of the ancient authorities, draws on Jewish mysticism, and questions the value of humanist rhetoric.