History of Philosophy Pieces

This podcast examines five common fallacious appeals in argumentation.

Continue with this longer list of extended logical fallacies that everyone should know, part two!

Fallacies are so pervasive that the more we are on gaurd, the better prepared we are to ward them off!

What was Peter Abelard’s lesser-known moral philosophy?

This podcast briefly summarizes The Analects of Confucius.

What was Saint Augustine’s narrative of the two cities, the City of God and the City of the World, all about?

This podcast explores five important philosophies from the Ancient Roman period, along with some key proponents from each school.

Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre argued that “Hell is—other people”; what did he mean by that?

What were the consolations discovered by Boethius?

Was Lou Salomé an embodiment of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideal human, the “Übermensch”?

This podcast explores five important thinkers: al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, the anti-philosopher of the group, al-Ghazali, and arguably the most influential of them all, Averroes.

This podcast explores some of the important Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages.

Who Was Jane Addams, the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize from the United States?

Was Saint Augustine the first philosopher of (not in) history, or is that a misnomer?

This podcast explores the incredible yet under-appreciated first woman on record in the west to make a living off her writing, Christine de Pizan.