History Of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Origen of Alexandria weaves Platonic ideas into new and controversial theological ideas

Irenaeus, Clement and Justin Martyr consider the relevance of philosophy for Christianity

An overview of what the Church Fathers contributed to ancient philosophy

A special double interview celebrates reaching 100 episodes by looking at the cultural status of philosophy in the ancient world

Richard Sorabji joins Peter to discuss the ancient commentators on Aristotle

John Philoponus refutes Aristotle’s and Proclus’ arguments for the eternity of the universe, and develops new ideas in physics.

Julian the Apostate and the philosophers of Athens and Alexandria try to keep pagan philosophy alive in the late Roman empire

Dominic O'Meara speaks with Peter about political philosophy and mathematics in Neoplatonism

Anne Sheppard joins Peter to discuss aesthetics from Plato to Proclus

Proclus displays late Neoplatonism in all its glory

Iamblichus fuses Platonism with pagan religious conviction and sets the agenda for Neoplatonism in generations to come.

Porphyry defends vegetarianism and the harmony of Plato and Aristotle

James Wilberding joins Peter to examine what Plotinus and Porphyry contributed to the philosophy of nature

Plotinus struggles to explain the presence of suffering, evil and ugliness in a world caused by purely good principles – and tells us what role we should play in that world.

For Plotinus, Soul is on the border between the physical and intelligible realms. Can he convince us to identify ourselves with its highest part?

Plotinus posits an absolutely transcendent first principle, the One. What is it (or isn’t it), and how does it relate to Intellect?

Peter introduces Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and the founder of Neoplatonism

How did the mathematics of figures like Euclid and Archimides relate to ancient philosophy? Peter finds out in an interview with Serafina Cuomo

Ptolemy uses philosophy in the service of studying the stars, while philosophers of all persuasions evaluate the widespread practice of astrology.

Themistius, Quintilian, Lucian and other authors tell us about the connections between rhetoric and late ancient philosophy