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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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  1. 148

    Komm, Jesu, Komm

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  2. 147

    Fascism

    Lecture 20, Fascism, 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

  3. 146

    Socrates on Who Should Rule

    Plato's Republic, Book 3. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. 145

    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

  5. 144

    Normativity

    Lecture 1, The Problem of Normativity, 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

  6. 143

    UGS 303 10 12 12 Roy Flukinger on Art and Photography 1920-1940

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  7. 142

    UGS 303 11 7 12 World War II: The US Enters the War

    Lecture 26, World War II: The U. S. Enters the 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

  8. 141

    Political Philosophy

    Lecture 8, Political Philosophy, 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

  9. 140

    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

  10. 139

    UGS 303 11 19 12 Roy Flukinger on Art and Photography 1960-2000

    Lecture 30, Art and Photography 1960-2000, 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

  11. 138

    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

  12. 137

    Moral Categories

    Moral Categories: The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the ???—ideas developed by Selim Berker, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  13. 136

    A Child Is Born

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

  14. 135

    PHL 354 3-27-13

    Lecture 23, 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

  15. 134

    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

  16. 133

    UGS 303 9 17 12 Progressivism

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  17. 132

    Gadamer vs Habermas

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

  18. 131

    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

  19. 130

    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  20. 129

    Herder's Philosophical Method

    The Philosophical Method of Johann Gottfried von Herder. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  21. 128

    Anselm on Identity and the Trinity

    Anselm of Canterbury on Relative Identity, Nominalism, the Trinity, and the Nile. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  22. 127

    1920s

    Lecture 19, The Roaring Twenties, 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

  23. 126

    Reinach's Paradox

    A practical paradox concerning reflection and moral evaluation discussed by Adolf Reinach (1883–1917). @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  24. 125

    UGS 303 11 28 12 The 1960s

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  25. 124

    Lobe den Herrn

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  26. 123

    PHL 354 1 25 13

    Lecture 4, Jesus's Life and Ministry, 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

  27. 122

    E M Forster

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  28. 121

    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

  29. 120

    The Contrary to Duty Paradox

    Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: Chisholm's Paradox, also known as the Contrary-to-Duty Paradox. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  30. 119

    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

  31. 118

    Plato on Democracy

    Plato's Republic, book 8, on rule by the people. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  32. 117

    The Libertarian Paradox

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

  33. 116

    Plato on Timocracy

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

  34. 115

    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  35. 114

    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  36. 113

    Gadamer vs Derrida

    Is Gadamer too optimistic? Is hermeneutics even possible? Can we ever understand what other people mean? @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  37. 112

    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

  38. 111

    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

  39. 110

    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

  40. 109

    PHL 354 426-13

    Lecture 36, John Calvin, 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

  41. 108

    Commensurability

    Three Concepts of Commensurability and Comparability: Having a common cardinal measure, trichotomy, and the Archimedean Principle. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  42. 107

    Socrates Takes on a Bully—Plato's Republic, Book I

    Socrates and Thrasymachus argue about justice, and in the end the argument turns on game theory; Book I of Plato's Republic. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  43. 106

    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

  44. 105

    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

  45. 104

    Christus, der ist mein Leben

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  46. 103

    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

  47. 102

    Higher Order Boundary Questions—Brandom on Heidegger

    Robert Brandom's interpretation of Heidegger, and a deep kind of philosophical question it raises. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  48. 101

    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

  49. 100

    The Problem of the Trinity

    How can God be both three and one? Tertullian lays out the problem in Against Praxeas. First in a series on the Trinity. @PhiloofAlexandria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  50. 99

    The Gentle Murder Paradox

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

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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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