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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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  • Tuesday · 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

  • Tuesday · 38 min

    Unamuno

    Lecture 13, Unamuno, 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

  • Tuesday · 18 min

    William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

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

  • Tuesday · 13 min

    Aristotle vs the Renaissance: Lorenzo Valla

    Lorenzo Valla, a 15th century Italian scholar, breaks from Aristotle and the Scholastic tradition, simplifying Aristotle's metaphysics and developing a different approach to virtue and the highest good.@PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 55 min

    Paralysis

    Lecture 24, Paralysis, 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

  • Tuesday · 4 min

    Amid the Calm of Winter's Rest

    Melanie Luna, Amid the Calm of Winter's Rest; words and music by Raymond Weidner. @PhiloofAlexandria@melanieluna3090 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 19 min

    George Orwell, 1984, Part 1: Truth

    Truth and Intellectual Integrity in 1984. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 52 min

    Hitler

    Lecture 23, The Rise of Hitler, 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

  • Tuesday · 54 min

    UGS 303 11 14 12 The Cold War

    Lecture 28, The Cold War, 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

  • Tuesday · 55 min

    Modernity

    Lecture 12, Modernity, 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

  • Tuesday · 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

  • Tuesday · 51 min

    Kripke

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  • Tuesday · 20 min

    Ethics of the Fathers

    Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) from the Babylonian Talmud—Fundamental Ethical Principles. Basic principles of ethics, according to the Rabbinical tradition. @Daniel Bonevac Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 18 min

    Plato, Euthyphro: The Euthyphro Dilemma

    Plato's early dialogue, the Euthyphro, concerns the nature of to hosion—the holy, reverent, pious,, or righteous. Plato present the Euthyphro dilemma: if something is F if and only if it is G, what explains what—are things F because they're G, or G because they're F? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 25 · 6 min

    Komm, Jesu, Komm

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  • September 25 · 28 min

    John Milton on Freedom of Speech

    John Milton's Areopagitica, his case for freedom of speech.@PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 25 · 28 min

    The Rabbinical Tradition: Ethics of the Fathers

    The Rabbinical Tradition as background for the rise of Christianity, and the beginning of the Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) in the Babylonian Talmud. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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