Ancient World

After the last episode where Dante meets Aristotle in Limbo, of Inferno - a listener asked if there is any way of escaping Limbo (the place for the unbaptized, thus also everyone living before the bir...

5 Feb 20196min

In this episode we go to one of the deepest levels of Aristotelian thinking, the consideration of the concept of Divinity. He describes this as the "First Mover" of all things, and also as "thinking i...

4 Feb 20197min

In this episode we briefly comment on the appearence of Aristotle in the Comedy, in Canto IV of the Inferno, and 
In Canto IV, Limbo, Dante meets the Philosopher Aristotle: 

I saw the master sage of ...

4 Feb 20193min

In this episode we look further into Aristotle's work on "First Philosophy", the Metaphysics. This is in some ways one of the most complicated and abstract of his complete works, and the inquiries go ...

1 Feb 20199min

From the opening of Book (Chapter) II of the Nicomachean Ethics:

 "Excellence, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual excellence in the main owes both its birth and its growth...

31 Jan 20193min

In this episode we look at one of the most beautiful passages in the Paradise, where the Pilgrim reaches the sixth sphere of the Heavens:

 I saw when I turned round: before my eyes
 there was the pur...

30 Jan 20194min

A brief introduction to a partly hidden gem in Italy, the small town of Ravenna. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

30 Jan 20194min

A very brief opener to the work "Ethics" by Aristotle. A main point is that happiness is in accordance to the "virtuous activity of the soul", with an emphasis on the on-going activity, and the deep i...

29 Jan 20193min