Leon Battista Alberti, Benedetto Cotrugli, and Poggio Bracciolini grapple with the moral and conceptual problems raised by the prospect of people getting filthy rich.
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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 26.07.2020HoP 354 - Greed is Good - Economics in the Italian Renaissance
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Folge vom 12.07.2020HoP 353 - The Good Place - Utopias in the Italian RenaissanceTommaso Campanella’s “The City of the Sun” and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
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Folge vom 28.06.2020HoP 352 - The Teacher of Our Actions - Renaissance HistoriographyBruni, Poggio, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini explore political ideas and historical method in works on Roman and Italian history.
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Folge vom 14.06.2020HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on MachiavelliLeading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.