Episode 47: Beyond the Wives: From Marriage Trouble to Head of the Church, Henry VIII’s Rebrand
Description
Philosophical Questions:
1. If authority over both religion and politics rests in the same hands, can that authority ever truly be legitimate, or does combining the two inevitably lead to corruption and tyranny?
2. Does history show us that great political shifts (like Henry’s Act of Supremacy) are the result of individual willpower and ambition, or are they the inevitable products of larger institutional and social forces?
3. Is it better for a society to have a single, unquestioned authority that provides order and unity (as Henry, Hobbes, and Machiavelli claimed), or a divided authority that might create instability, but preserves space for individual freedom of thought?
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