Christian ascetics like Antony, Macrina and Evagrius create a new ethical ideal by pushing the human capacity for self-control to its limits.
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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 16.12.2012HoP 107 - Practice Makes Perfect - Christian Asceticism
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Folge vom 09.12.2012HoP 106 - Double or Nothing - Maximus the ConfessorThe early Byzantine thinker Maximus uses Aristotle to defend the orthodox view of Christ's two natures
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Folge vom 02.12.2012HoP 105 - Naming the Nameless - the Pseudo-DionysiusA mysterious author calling himself Dionysius fuses Neoplatonism with Christianity
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Folge vom 25.11.2012HoP 104 - Let's Talk Turkey - the CappadociansBasil of Caesarea, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus use philosophy to help the poor and to defeat their theological opponents