HoP 457 - Take Your Medicine - Oliva Sab...

What do emotions reveal about the connection between mind and body? We turn to Descartes’ correspondence with Elisabeth and his On the Passions to find out. 

A royal scholar and philosopher sets aside the tribulations of her family to debate Descartes over the relation between mind and body and the nature of happiness. 

Descartes’ “provisional” morality and his views on free will and virtue. 

durée : 00:58:23 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Muhlmann - Au 17e siècle, deux positions en apparence très différentes concernant la liberté de l'homme s'opposent : d'un côté, la pensée cartésienne du libre arbitre, et de l'autre, une vision déterministe théorisée par Spino ... Show More

Around 460 BCE, a man was born in Ancient Greece who would change medicine forever. He invented a new scientific approach to medicine that recognised disease as a natural phenomenon, rather than the will of the gods. Or at least, that's what we're told. Matt Lewis joins Prof. Hel ... Show More

In Plato’s ideal state, the wisest amongst the populous would be selected to rule. These rulers, who could see beyond the shadows to glimpse the light of truth, would be trusted to make choices to the benefit of all. The gender of these leaders, said Plato, was not to matter – de ... Show More

Philosophers have a birth defect. They are cursed, destined to philosophize without a historical sense. Even without realizing it, we take for granted the moral prejudices of our own times. For better or worse, language and the cultural software we inherit both play a role in sha ... Show More

Today we talk about Nietzsche's views on the decay of western society. We talk about his problems with Socrates. The genealogy of Egalitarianism that has led to our modern societies, and how to contextualize his concept of the Ubermensch within modern culture. Hope you enjoy it! ... Show More

« Les femmes sont plus féministes et les hommes plus masculinistes, surtout les jeunes ». Voilà le constat dressé par le Haut Conseil à l’Égalité dans son baromètre annuel. Il en ressort un écart de perception entre les femmes et les hommes pouvant aller jusqu’à 20 points, que ce ... Show More

Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treatise which aimed to fully encapsulate th ... Show More