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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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  • October 28 · 25 min

    Plato on Wisdom: Plato's Euthydemus

    Socrates discusses wisdom, concluding that it is a self-replicating craft. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 14-09-23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 28 · 21 min

    The Libertarian Paradox

    Amartya Sen's puzzle about the conflict between a plausible libertarian principle and the weak Pareto condition. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 26-01-23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 28 · 37 min

    Three Questions of Ethics

    The basic questions of ethics: what to be, what to do, and how to decide. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 30-05-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 28 · 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 Uploaded 19-12-22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 28 · 5 min

    A Child Is Born

    Melanie Luna, A Child Is Born. Words and music by Thad Jones (and Roland Hanna?). @PhiloofAlexandria @melanieluna3090 Uploaded 21-12-22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 28 · 11 min

    Bentham's Hedonism

    Jeremy Bentham looks for an empiricist foundation for morality, and finds it in pleasure and pain. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 29-04-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 28 · 24 min

    Plato on Timocracy

    Plato's Republic, Book 8—government by honor and shame. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 20-11-22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 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 Uploaded 30-10-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 9 min

    Zeno's Metaphysical Paradoxes

    Why there can't be more than one thing in the universe—and why it can't take up any space, if it exists at all.@PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 03-08-23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 24 min

    George Orwell 1984 Part 2, Ethics and Politics

    George Orwell on morality, socialism, and dirty hands. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 07-12-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 53 min

    1940s

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Uploaded 18-11-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 41 min

    PHL 354 3-18-13

    Lecture 19, Augustine, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Uploaded 20-03-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 45 min

    UGS 303 11 28 12 The 1960s

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Uploaded 10-12-12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 31 min

    What's Wrong with Price Gouging?

    Is it OK to raise prices in response to increased needs our reduced supplies? If so, how much? It's not easy to say; without price increases, things may get even worse. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 22-08-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 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 Uploaded 24-11-12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 51 min

    PHL 354 1 16 13

    Lecture 1, The Hebrew Bible's Conception of God, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Uploaded 16-01-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 12 min

    A Renaissance Theory of Virtue: Lorenzo Valla on Courage and Temperance

    A 15th century Italian Renaissance scholar develops an alternative to Aristotle's theory of virtue by advocating a multi-dimensional view of virtues.@PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 06-07-23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 17 min

    George Orwell, 1984, Part 1: Truth

    Truth and Intellectual Integrity in 1984. @PhiloofAlexandria Uploaded 26-11-21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 27 · 57 min

    PHL 354 2 6 13

    Lecture 9, Paul on Faith and Sin, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Uploaded 06-02-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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