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

Lecture 21, Augustine, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

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

Lecture 18, Gregory of Nyssa, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013

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

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

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

Why an arrow can never reach its target. @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

Lecture 23, The Rise of Hitler, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012