A Socratic Enigma:
I discuss whether the virtues are to be valued because of their goodness, or considered good because they are valued.

Participant in a Debate on Capital Punishment: Philosophy Club, Spring, 2002. I defend the "abolitionist" position, arguing against the death penalty.

Hegel Clip 1 Hegel's critique of the Kantian notion of a noumenal "thing in itself," which purportedly was to be beyond the limits of all possible experience.
Hegel Clip 2 Since the notion of something beyond all possible experience is, as Hegel argues, radically incoherent, an alternative conception of the "noumenon" is necessary. He suggests that Ultimate Reality must be essentially self-manifesting.

Hegel Clip 3 How is full self-consciousness possible? Hegel claims that the Ultimate Substance must transform itself through a process of progressive self-revelation so as to become the Ultimate Subject.

Hegel Clip 4 Quoting Meister Eckhart, "The eye with which I behold God is the same eye with which God beholds himself," Hegel maintains that Infinite Spirit necessarily produces the phenomenal universe and the finite spirits within it.

Hegel Clip 1 Hegel's critique of the Kantian notion of a noumenal "thing in itself," which purportedly was to be beyond the limits of all possible experience.	Hegel Clip 2 Since the notion of something beyond all possible experience is, as Hegel argues, radically incoherent, an alternative conception of the "noumenon" is necessary. He suggests that Ultimate Reality must be essentially self-manifesting.
Hegel Clip 3 How is full self-consciousness possible? Hegel claims that the Ultimate Substance must transform itself through a process of progressive self-revelation so as to become the Ultimate Subject.	Hegel Clip 4 Quoting Meister Eckhart, "The eye with which I behold God is the same eye with which God beholds himself," Hegel maintains that Infinite Spirit necessarily produces the phenomenal universe and the finite spirits within it.