Kevin Clarke of Sacred Heart Seminary joins Sam Bennett and Dominic Cassella to discuss St. Maximus the Confessor’s Opuscula and Dispute with Pyrrhus. Clarke’s new translation and introduction is…
Max Rohstock argues that, for Dionysius, evil arises when human freedom turns away from the Good itself and becomes fixed on finite goods (wealth, power, pleasure) as though they were ultimate. Yet…
In this episode, we talk about a puzzle in St. Maximus the Confessor. First, Maximus holds that every human being already participates in Christ: Christ is the source, ordering principle, and final…
What kind of thing is evil? If all being is good, where does disorder come from? Can evil have reality without being a substance?In this episode, we talk with philosopher Pierce Marks about his paper…
In this episode of The Dionysius Circle Podcast, we’re joined by renowned scholar of Plato, David Ebrey. We dive into his latest book on Plato’s Phaedo, exploring Socrates’ radical views on the…
Political philosopher Mark Blitz joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Aristotle’s Political Philosophy. We consider Aristotle’s account of the link between political life and human happiness,…
In this episode, Sam Bennett speaks with philosopher Jakub Jirsa about his new Bloomsbury book, The Function Argument in Aristotle’s Ethics. They discuss Aristotle’s famous function argument, what it…
In this episode, I speak with Michele Pecorari about one of Aristotle’s arguments against Plato’s Form of the Good in Nicomachean Ethics 1.6. Aristotle notes that we call many different kinds of…
Gyula Klima discusses the medieval problem of universals, focusing on the divide between the via antiqua and the via moderna. The conversation centers especially on William of Ockham’s break with the…
Karsten Harries, emeritus Yale professor of philosophy, joins Dr. Sam Bennett for a conversation on Nicholas of Cusa’s On Learned Ignorance, the limits of reason, modern science, nihilism, Kant,…
