Daniel Bonevac

Lecture 2, Marx, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

Lecture 27, Existentialism, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

Johann Gottlob Fichte on the unity of practical and theoretical reason and the nature of human freedom.@PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 12, Yeats and Unamuno, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

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

Three Concepts of Commensurability and Comparability: Having a common cardinal measure, trichotomy, and the Archimedean Principle. @PhiloofAlexandria

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

Lecture 8, Paul on Weakness of Will, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

Lecture 10, Civilization in Decline: The Waste Land, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

The ethical ideas of John Dewey, which underlie his approaches to education and other social and political issues. @PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 10, Gnosticism, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Historicism and Pluralistic Cosmopolitanism—Are They Compatible? @PhiloofAlexandria

German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and his ideas on a hermeneutic ethics. @PhiloofAlexandria

Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: Forrester's Gentle Murder Paradox. @PhiloofAlexandria

Johann Gottlob Fichte on consciousness, self-consciousness, and consciousness of our own self-consciousness. @PhiloofAlexandria

Are any conversational norms non-negotiable? @PhiloofAlexandria

Two puzzles from Jean Buridan: Buridan's ass (the donkey undecided among piles of hay) and the fifteenth sophism, "I owe you a horse," both of which relate to H. A. Prichard's puzzle—we seem never to have a reason or obligation to perform any particular action. @PhiloofAlexandria

Moral Categories: The Deontic, the Evaluative, and the Aptic—Selim Berker's three categories of normative concepts. @PhiloofAlexandria

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

Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: The Robber and Victim Paradoxes. @PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 24, Paralysis, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

Midterm Exam Review, UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

Ethical concepts, including virtue concepts, are vague.@PhiloofAlexandria

Some thoughts on Selim Berker's idea that, in addition to deontic and evaluative normative categories, we need a category of the fitting, appropriate, suitable, deserved, etc. It seems they DO have duals—which might suggest that they are deontic after all.@PhiloofAlexandria

John Stuart Mill's argument for freedom of speech—"the liberty of thought and discussion"—in On Liberty. @PhiloofAlexandria

Friedrich Schelling’s Absolute Idealism—and his argument for it, based on the missing explanation argument. @PhiloofAlexandria

Socrates discusses wisdom, concluding that it is a self-replicating craft. @PhiloofAlexandria

Amartya Sen's puzzle about the conflict between a plausible libertarian principle and the weak Pareto condition. @PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 2, Plato's God, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

Lecture 9, Marxism and the Russian Revolution, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

Lecture 25, World War II, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

What is a good will? And why are the formulations of the Categorical Imperative equivalent?

A libertarian paradox that does not involve any Pareto condition, that might be termed the Busybody Paradox. @PhiloofAlexandria

Lecture 7, Paul at Mars' Hill, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

Lecture 35, Freedom in Practice, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012

A reading and analysis of W. B. Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming." @PhiloofAlexandria