2017

Essay on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics:

• Why should one be virtuous? (in German)

Short answers on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics:

• Aristotle on Friendship (in German)
• Aristotle on Pleasure (in German)
• Aristotle on Virtue and Knowledge (in German)

2016

Short answers:

• What, according to Thomas Nagel in his essay “What is it like to be a bat?”, is consciousness?
• What is Thomas Nagel’s argument in his essay “What is it like to be a bat?” for the conclusion that consciousness poses a challenge to physicalism?

2014

• Analysis of freedom of choice

2012-2013

Essays on Plato’s The Republic:

• Images in Plato’s Republic
• How can one escape self-tyranny (feat. Rousseau’s Second Discourse)
• What is Justice?

Essays on Plato’s Symposium:

• The significance of Alcibiades and his speech

• How does Diotima’s theory of eros from the Symposium account for Ovid’s personal experience of love in the Amores?
  • Note 1: The definitions of eros in Diotima’s speech
  • Note 2: The striking similarities and compatibility of Diotima’s erotic theory with contemporary evolutionary psychology approach to understanding human behavior and desires

Other essays:

• How to read Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love as a unified whole
• The relationship between equality and democracy in Aristotle’s Politics and in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America