Daniel Bonevac
by Daniel Bonevac
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A Thomistic Argument against Price Gouging
A Thomistic Argument against Price Gouging
About this podcast
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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- A Thomistic Argument against Price Gouging · 21 minIs it OK to raise prices in response to increased needs or reduced supplies in response to some natural disaster or other crisis? Only up to a point—the just price—say followers…
- Tertullian against Marcion · 20 minTertullian's critique of Marcion. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 22-02-22Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön · 36 minLecture 24 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.Uploaded 28-10-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Komm, Jesu, Komm · 6 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 17-12-12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- PHL 354 424-13 · 56 minLecture 35, Martin Luther, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013Uploaded 25-04-13Learn more about your ad choices…
- WW2Europe · 52 minLecture 26, World War II: Europe, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013Uploaded 06-11-13Learn more about your ad choices…
- The Philosophy of Hegel · 42 minHegel's critique of Kant and his dynamic idealism. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 11-03-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad…
- World War I · 54 minWorld War I, Lecture 8 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.Uploaded 17-09-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad…
- Fichte on Pragmatism and Freedom · 16 minJohann Gottlob Fichte on the unity of practical and theoretical reason and the nature of human freedom.@PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 21-07-24Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- UGS 303 12 5 12 Freedom in Practice · 48 minLecture 35, Freedom in Practice, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012Uploaded 07-12-12Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- UGS 303 10 3 12 Rudyard Kipling · 57 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 03-10-12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- John Milton on Freedom of Speech · 27 minJohn Milton's Areopagitica, his case for freedom of speech.@PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 04-08-24Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your…
- Other Consequentialisms · 16 minMotive, character, institutional, and civilizational consequentialisms. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 22-04-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn…
- Dewey's Ethics · 20 minThe ethical ideas of John Dewey, which underlie his approaches to education and other social and political issues. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 18-09-23Learn more about your ad…
- Higher order Boundaries—Derrida and Habermas · 21 minHigher-order boundary questions, illustrated with branches of government, and then applied to a dispute between Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas about the boundary between…
- W V Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation · 10 minLecture 34 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.Uploaded 30-11-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- PHL 354 1 18 13 · 54 minLecture 2, Plato's God, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013Uploaded 23-01-13Learn more about your ad choices…
- PHL 354 4-5-13 · 57 minLecture 27, Anselm's Why God Became Man, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013Uploaded 05-04-13Learn more about your…
- Equality Matching · 17 minEquality matching relationships in Relational Models Theory. @Daniel BonevacUploaded 04-07-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your…
- Aristotle vs Common Sense: Virtues as Means · 11 minAristotle sees virtues as means between extremes; they aren't part of virtue-vice pairs, as common sense seems to indicate. But sometimes, as with courage, they are means on…
- 1960s · 51 minLecture 32, The 1960s, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013Uploaded 22-11-13Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- The Rabbinical Tradition: Ethics of the Fathers · 27 minThe Rabbinical Tradition as background for the rise of Christianity, and the beginning of the Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) in the Babylonian Talmud…
- W H Auden · 34 minLecture 23 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.Uploaded 26-10-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Discursive Dilemmas · 15 minPhilip Pettit's dilemma, showing that individual rationality does not guarantee group rationality. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 25-12-22Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Nietzsche · 37 minAn overview of Nietzsche's philosophy, concentrating on his middle period (Human, All Too Human; The Playful Science; Beyond Good and Evil). @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded…
- PHL 354 1 25 13 · 56 minLecture 4, Jesus's Life and Ministry, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013Uploaded 25-01-13Learn more about your ad…
- Antonio Lotti, Et Resurrexit · 5 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 26-08-15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Plato on Art and Literature · 20 minPlato's Republic, Book 10. Why the ideal state should not have art or literature. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 01-12-22Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Nozick on Justice · 19 minRobert Nozick's theory of justice in holdings in Anarchy, State, and Utopia. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 27-05-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
- 1930s · 52 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 04-11-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Market Pricing · 21 minMarket pricing relationships in Relational Models Theory. @Daniel BonevacUploaded 06-07-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad…
- Political Philosophy · 31 minLecture 8, Political Philosophy, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013Uploaded 24-09-13Learn more about your ad choices…
- Utilitarianism · 34 minUtilitarianism in Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 25-04-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad…
- American Foreign Policy, 1950 1970 · 58 minLecture 32 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.Uploaded 20-11-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Manifest and Scientific Images · 18 minLecture 2 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015Uploaded 31-08-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- PHL 354 1 30 13 · 52 minLecture 6, The Council of Jerusalem, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013Uploaded 30-01-13Learn more about your ad…
- Russell's Paradox · 15 minBertrand Russell's paradox, which shows that Frege's logic, and naive set theory in general, are inconsistent. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 10-07-22Learn more about your ad…
- Gödel's Argument for God · 35 minKurt Gödel's argument for the existence of God, from his notebooks, as revised by C. Anthony Anderson. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 11-03-22Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Competing Responsibly · 35 minHow the competitive environment affects corporate social responsibilities and strategies. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 15-06-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Antonio Lotti, Kyrie Eleison 2 · 4 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 26-08-15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Perfect and Imperfect Virtues · 14 minAspasius and later commentators on perfect and imperfect virtues: can an action exhibit a virtue, and another action exhibit it to an even greater extent?…
- Aristotle vs the Renaissance: Lorenzo Valla · 13 minLorenzo Valla, a 15th century Italian scholar, breaks from Aristotle and the Scholastic tradition, simplifying Aristotle's metaphysics and developing a different approach to…
- Ortega y Gasset's Perspectivism · 29 minJosé Ortega y Gasset, vital reason, and perspectivism as an alternative to realism, idealism, and relativism. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 16-03-21Learn more about your ad choices…
- The Depression · 52 minLecture 21 of Ideas of the Twentieth Century, Fall 2015.Uploaded 23-10-15Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Price Discrimination · 35 minCharging different customers different prices for the same product—when is that OK? @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 05-08-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- The Tragedy of the Commons · 16 minThe tragedy of the commons and the problem it raises for Adam Smith's argument. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 22-07-21Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
- Solving Reinach's Paradox · 15 minThree hypotheses for explaining why the effects of reflection on moral evalaution are not uniform. @PhiloofAlexandriaUploaded 20-12-22Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Nozick · 55 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesUploaded 06-12-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Freedom · 56 minLecture 43, Freedom, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013Uploaded 06-12-13Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
- Normativity · 54 minLecture 1, The Problem of Normativity, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013Uploaded 03-09-13Learn more about your ad…







