HoP 267 - After Virtue - Marguerite Porete

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:philosophy

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🗓️ 18 December 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Marguerite Porete is put to death for her exploration of the love of God, The Mirror of Simple Souls.

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0:00.0	The Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at Kings College
0:24.7	London and the LMU in Munich, online at www. History of Philosophy.net.
0:31.7	Today's episode, After Virtue, Marguerite Poret.
0:38.7	Who is the medieval version of Socrates?
0:42.0	Perhaps Albert the Great, a famous philosopher who had an even more famous philosopher for a student, or actually
0:48.3	any number of scholastics since they all loved a good disputed question.
0:53.4	Or how about Peter of Olivier, champion of voluntary poverty?
0:58.0	You might also think of Roger Bacon because he was sent to prison for his teachings. But if we're thinking along these lines, then the medieval
1:05.0	thinker with the best claim to the title might be Marguerite Poetz. Like Socrates, she was executed
1:11.9	after courageously refusing to recant her convictions. she was friends, followed by a bowl of hemlock, Marguerite was burned to death.
1:24.8	It didn't come without warning.
1:27.0	Years earlier, she had been arrested after a book she had written came to the attention
1:31.0	of the local bishop. The book was destroyed before her very eyes,
1:35.2	and she was warned never again to disseminate such heresy on pain of execution.
1:41.2	Mariette didn't let this stop her. She was evidently a woman of means and some social standing, since she could afford to have several copies of her book made, keeping one herself, as she admitted, and having her ideas written down and passed to others, including another bishop.
1:57.0	In 1308, she was arrested and excommunicated.
2:01.0	A protracted period of imprisonment followed. The Inquisitor, William of
2:06.4	Paris, couldn't even get this stubborn woman to take an oath on the sacrament so that a
2:11.0	trial could begin. Finally, he gave up trying to extract her cooperation.
2:16.5	A panel of Parisian theologians was assembled and they agreed that her book was heretical.
2:21.9	She was handed over to the secular authorities and executed in Paris
2:25.3	on June 1st, 1310. The book for which she died fared somewhat better. It is called the Mirror of Simple Souls who dwell in wishing and in longing.
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