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Today's episode will be an interview with Martin Piccave, who is professor of philosophy and medieval studies at the University of Toronto,

and we're going to be talking about one of his particular areas of interest in his research, Henry of Ghent.

Hi Martin, thanks for coming on. Hi Peter, Henry of Ghent.

Hi Martin, thanks for coming on.

Hi Peter, thanks for having we here.

Henry of Ghent is known to specialists of medieval philosophy,

at least for several things, and I think probably the thing he's most known for is that he's an early example of volunteerism and I thought maybe we could start there can you say a little bit about what you understand by the term volunteerism and why we might think that Henry is an example of a volunteerist?

Yes, the term volunteerism is often used in two ways. In the first way it means someone who thinks that in one way another the will is what makes us properly human is kind of the highest human faculty and if that's the idea of

voluntarism then I think it's fairly clear that Henry of Ghent like many others is a voluntarist

because he repeatedly says that the will is the highest

power of the human soul. It's higher than the intellect for example and yeah I think that's a

clear-cut case. There's another use of the term voluntarism,

and there is supposed to indicate that voluntarists

have a specific view about human freedom.

And there it's a bit more difficult to see what

what will actually mean. I take it that in this respect,

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