For those who keep up with the History of Philosophy without Any Gaps podcast (and if you don’t, you should), Dr. Adamson officially finished out his series on Late Antiquity and will be moving on to the Medieval period. Here are the links to all of the episodes specifically devoted to the Early Church:
- 101 – Father Figures: Introduction to Ancient Christian Philosophy
- 102 – Please Accept Our Apologies: the Greek Church Fathers
- 103 – Fall and Rise: Origen
- 104 – Let’s Talk Turkey: the Cappadocians
- 105 – Naming the Nameless: the Pseudo-Dionysius
- 106 – Double or Nothing: Maximus the Confessor
- 107 – Practice Makes Perfect: Christian Asceticism
- 108 – George Boys-Stones on the Greek Church Fathers
- 109 – Spreading the Word: the Latin Church Fathers
- 110 – Life and Time: Augustine’s Confessions
- 111 – Papa Don’t Teach: Augustine on Language
- 112 – Help Wanted: Augustine on Freedom
- 113 – Heaven and Earth: Augustine’s City of God
- 114 – Sarah Byers on Augustine’s Ethics
- 115 – Me, Myself and I: Augustine on Mind and Memory
- 116 – Charles Brittain on Augustine’s “On the Trinity”
- 117 – Born Again: Latin Platonism
- 118 – Fate, Hope and Clarity: Boethius
- 119 – John Marenbon on Boethius
In addition, I recently stumbled upon a history of philosophy course from Wheaton by Dr. Arthur Holmes (81 lectures in all). So far, I’ve been very impressed. Unfortunately, you have to download each episode individually from Wheaton’s website (either audio or video), but on the bright side, all of the metadata imports into your media player so you don’t have to spend an hour or so editing the information.
I’ve enjoyed Adamson’s podcast a great deal, but I didn’t know about the wheaton lectures. I’ve been looking for something to get me up to speed on the modern period, since Adamson hasn’t gotten that far yet. Thanks for the link!
I hope you find them helpful. I’ve enjoyed them so far (I jumped ahead to Hegel), and have found Dr. Holmes to be an excellent lecturer. I wish I had a class like this in my undergrad!
I should also add that I have found Charles Taylor particularly helpful for moving between the ancient and modern world. While I haven’t read his book, A Secular Age (I think I finished chapter one before I had to move on to other things), there are some lectures available where he summarizes the argument of that book that you may find helpful:
1) A More Adequate Narrative of Western Secularization (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/berkley-center-lectures-more/id421557940?i=91440342&mt=2)
2) Dishenchantment and Secularity (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/berkley-center-lectures-disenchantment/id421557940?i=91440337&mt=2)
3) Master Narratives of Modernity (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/berkley-center-lectures-master/id421557940?i=91440345&mt=2)
Thanks for the links! I’ll download and take a look (or, listen).