HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics

We begin to explore Malebranche’s controversial development of Cartesian philosophy by looking at his theodicy. 

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole update the study of logic to take account of the ideas of Descartes. 

When we think of Western philosophers who pondered questions about the good life, we typically think of the classical era of Greece and the likes of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. But my guest would say that the poets and philosophers who came out of the preceding period, Gre ...

The Greek thinker Socrates was put to death for encouraging his students to question everything - from their own beliefs to the laws and customs of Athenian society. But his ideas didn't die with him.  Here's a chance to hear two episodes from our archive examining the legacy of ...  عرض المزيد

Rediffusion Dès l'aube de l'humanité, les hommes ont cherché à se soigner. Ainsi a-t-on retrouvé des ossements d'hommes préhistoriques attestant de l'existence de certaines techniques de soins, comme la trépanation ou la réduction de fractures.De même, la médecine égyptienne étai ...  عرض المزيد

Today’s counter-culture and alternative movements question mainstream norms, such as putting too much value on material possessions. The Cynics, practical philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, also rejected conventional desires to seek wealth, power and fame. They were not you ...  عرض المزيد