Beyond the Text: The Intellectual Historian's Podcast
Samuel Woodall
43 episodes
1 month ago
Send us a text In this episode of the History of Ideas Club, Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham) leads a discussion on St Augustine’s The City of God. We explore Augustine’s response to the fall of Rome, his vision of the earthly and heavenly cities, and the influence of his thought on theology, politics, and philosophy. The History of Ideas Club meets bi-weekly in London to read and debate classic texts in philosophy and political thought. This recording brings the convers...
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Send us a text In this episode of the History of Ideas Club, Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham) leads a discussion on St Augustine’s The City of God. We explore Augustine’s response to the fall of Rome, his vision of the earthly and heavenly cities, and the influence of his thought on theology, politics, and philosophy. The History of Ideas Club meets bi-weekly in London to read and debate classic texts in philosophy and political thought. This recording brings the convers...
John Locke, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine - The Quest for Liberty
Beyond the Text: The Intellectual Historian's Podcast
1 hour 19 minutes
9 months ago
John Locke, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine - The Quest for Liberty
Send us a text In this episode, Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson explore the ideas of John Locke and Thomas Paine, building on and going beyond the discussion at the History of Ideas Club. Locke’s Two Treatises of Government argued that governments derive legitimacy from the consent of the governed, laying the groundwork for modern liberal democracy. Paine took this further, calling for radical action in Common Sense and The Rights of Man, rejecting monarchy and gradual reform in favor of imme...
Beyond the Text: The Intellectual Historian's Podcast
Send us a text In this episode of the History of Ideas Club, Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham) leads a discussion on St Augustine’s The City of God. We explore Augustine’s response to the fall of Rome, his vision of the earthly and heavenly cities, and the influence of his thought on theology, politics, and philosophy. The History of Ideas Club meets bi-weekly in London to read and debate classic texts in philosophy and political thought. This recording brings the convers...
