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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 33 min
  • English
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  • Today · 9 min

    The Hellenistic Background of Christianity

    Christianity arose and spread in a Hellenistic culture, in which the Greek language served as a lingua franca over a large geographic area containing many ethnic groups, religions, and cultures. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 52 min

    1930s

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  • Today · 55 min

    Freedom

    Lecture 43, Freedom, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 14 min

    Perfect and Imperfect Virtues

    Aspasius and later commentators on perfect and imperfect virtues: can an action exhibit a virtue, and another action exhibit it to an even greater extent? @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 21 min

    Higher order Boundaries—Derrida and Habermas

    Higher-order boundary questions, illustrated with branches of government, and then applied to a dispute between Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas about the boundary between philosophy and literature: Is the distinction between literature and philosophy literary or philosophical? @DanielBonevac Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 52 min

    PHL 354 3-25-13

    Lecture 22, Boethius, 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

  • Today · 52 min

    PHL 354 1 30 13

    Lecture 6, The Council of Jerusalem, 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

  • Today · 28 min

    Plato on Wisdom: Plato's Euthydemus

    Socrates discusses wisdom, concluding that it is a self-replicating craft. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 55 min

    UGS 303 10 31 12 The Rise of Hitler

    Lecture 23, The Rise of Hitler, 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

  • Today · 13 min

    Gadamer vs Habermas

    Are any conversational norms non-negotiable? @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 16 min

    Fichte on Pragmatism and Freedom

    Johann Gottlob Fichte on the unity of practical and theoretical reason and the nature of human freedom.@PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 14 min

    Russell's Paradox

    Bertrand Russell's paradox, which shows that Frege's logic, and naive set theory in general, are inconsistent. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 56 min

    PHL 354 4-5-13

    Lecture 27, Anselm's Why God Became Man, 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

  • Today · 47 min

    UGS 303 12 5 12 Freedom in Practice

    Lecture 35, Freedom in Practice, 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

  • Today · 20 min

    Plato on Art and Literature

    Plato's Republic, Book 10. Why the ideal state should not have art or literature. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 50 min

    1960s

    Lecture 32, The 1960s, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 54 min

    Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

    Lecture 3, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, 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

  • Today · 20 min

    Tertullian against Marcion

    Tertullian's critique of Marcion. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Today · 20 min

    Dewey's Ethics

    The ethical ideas of John Dewey, which underlie his approaches to education and other social and political issues. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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