History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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HoP 497 Pure and Simple: Quietism

7/12/2026 • 19 min

The “Quietists” Jeanne Guyon and François Fénelon argue that self-love can be overcome by cultivating a “pure love” for God. Their reward: to be accused of heresy. Play episode

HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine
HoP 495 Comedy of Errors: Molière
HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender
HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians
HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes
HoP 474 States of the Union: Descartes on the Passions
HoP 473 As Rational As You: Elisabeth of Bohemia
HoP 472 Less Cheer, More Knowledge: Descartes’ Ethics
HoP 471 Unclear and Indistinct Ideas: Debating the Meditations
HoP 470 Gary Hatfield on Descartes' Meditations
HoP 469 Ghost in the Machine: Cartesian Dualism
HoP 468 Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method
HoP 467 Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics
HoP 466 Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works
HoP 465 Modern Times: France and the Netherlands in the 17th Century
HoP 464 Howard Hotson on the Republic of Letters
HoP 463 Doctors without Borders: the Republic of Letters
HoP 462 Freedom to Philosophize: Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy
HoP 461 - Eileen Reeves on Galileo and the Telescope
HoP 460 - Trial and Error - Galileo and the Inquisition
HoP 459 - Cardinal Rule - Robert Bellarmine
HoP 458 - Outsider Philosophy - The Cheese and the Worms
HoP 457 - Take Your Medicine - Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani
HoP 456 - Touch Me With Your Madness - Cervantes’ Don Quixote
HoP 455 - Tom Pink on Francisco Suárez
HoP 454 - By Appointment Only - Political Philosophy in the Second Scholas…
HoP 453 - The Price is Right - Law and Economics in the Second Scholastic
HoP 452 - Better Than Nothing - Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic
HoP 451 - Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve - Free Will in the Second Scholast…
HoP 450 - Depicting What Cannot Be Depicted - Philosophy and Two Renaissan…
HoP 449 - Anna Tropia on Jesuit Philosophy
HoP 448 - Secondary Schools - Iberian Scholasticism

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