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Daniel Bonevac

Daniel Bonevac

Daniel Bonevac explores the history of philosophy with focus on German Idealism and Enlightenment thinkers. Each episode examines a philosopher's core ideas—from Herder's historicism to Schelling's absolute idealism—tracing how these figures shaped debates about ethics, freedom, and consciousness. Rigorous, scholarly, and accessible.

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  • Avg 32 min
  • English
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  • Today · 13 min

    Fichte's Foundation for Ethics

    Johann Gottlob Fichte develops a Kantian ethics from his analysis of self-consciousness. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 5 min

    Winter Snow

    Melanie Luna, Winter Snow—words and music by Audrey Assad. Recorded live on December 1, 2019. @PhiloofAlexandria@melanieluna3090 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 18 min

    Ptolemy the Gnostic

    Ptolemy, a 2nd-century Gnostic and student of Valentinus, developed an account of the moral law deriving from the Bible and distinguishing distinct levels of authority for various commandments—one with relevance to Christians today. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 13 min

    Aspasius and Aristotle on Virtue as a Mean

    Aspasius wrote the earliest surviving commentary on Aristotle, starting a tradition that would last for a millennium. He raises a number of interesting issues, including this one: Is the mean that defines virtue a point or a region? How hard is it to be virtuous?@PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 14 min

    Condorcet's Paradox

    The paradox of voting—why individual rationality does not guarantee group rationality. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 5 min

    The Gentle Murder Paradox

    Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: Forrester's Gentle Murder Paradox. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 53 min

    UGS 303 11 30 12 Reviving Liberalism: John Rawls

    Lecture 34, Reviving Liberalism, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 56 min

    PHL 354 2 11 13

    Lecture 11, Gnosticism, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 57 min

    UGS 303 9 26 12 Eliot: The Waste Land

    Lecture 10, Civilization in Decline: The Waste Land, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 57 min

    PHL 354 3-29-13

    Lecture 24, Anselm, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 13 min

    Heidegger's Being and Time: Dasein, Being in a World

    Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) centers on the concept of Dasein, "there-being," or "being there," being in a world. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 52 min

    PHL 354 2 8 13

    Lecture 10, Gnosticism, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 55 min

    T. S. Eliot

    Lecture 10, T. S. Eliot, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 19 min

    Ortega y Gasset

    Lecture 13, Ortega y Gasset, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 16 min

    Tertullian on the Trinity

    Tertullian's position on the Trinity, as explained in Against Praxeas. Second in a series on the Trinity. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 17 min

    William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

    A reading and analysis of W. B. Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming." @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 47 min

    UGS 303 10 10 12 Luigi Pirandello

    Lecture 16, Pirandello, if OGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 48 min

    Kipling

    Lecture 14, Kipling, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Yesterday · 9 min

    The Robber and Victim Paradoxes

    Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: The Robber and Victim Paradoxes. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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