Montaigne and the Renaissance
Professor Kozlowski discusses the rapidly-changing world of Modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Protestant Reformation to the Scientific Revolution, in order to contextualize and understand the...
22 Sep 20211h 44min
Dante and Beatrice
Professor Kozlowski takes a break from philosophy proper to discuss the Love of the poets and artists of the late medieval and early modern era, focusing primarily on the romance of Dante and Beatrice...
18 Sep 20211h 37min
Aquinas - Friendship is Charity
Professor Kozlowski goes for a (relatively) brief walk through the woolly area of Thomist philosophy: examining how Aquinas distinguishes between concupiscent and friendly love and how friendly love i...
18 Sep 20211h 14min
Islam and Courtly Love
Professor Kozlowski commits a hat-trick of irresponsible academic conjecture by (1) wading deep into a contentious discussion that (2) he is woefully under-informed about, and (3) which involves a cul...
15 Sep 20211h 41min
Augustine and the Evolution of Christianity
Professor Kozlowski largely abandons today's reading from Augustine's Confessions in order to embark on a brief history of the early Christian church, tracking its evolution from a guerrilla religion ...
15 Sep 20211h 44min
Christianity - God is Love
It's time to talk about Christianity, and how it radically changed Western Culture's understanding of Love. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlo...
8 Sep 20211h 51min
Cicero - De Amicitia
Professor Kozlowski muses on the subject of how philosophy texts become "important" to the canon, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - as a subject of philosophical study, and also (when forced) wh...
8 Sep 20211h 41min
Rome, Stoicism, and (Avoiding) Love
Professor Kozlowski crosses the Rubicon to discuss the rise of the Roman Empire, its widespread (and politically-motivated?) embrace of stoicism, and how that informs Roman attitudes on hero-worship a...
7 Sep 20211h 43min
