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Ideas, Learning & Language

Philosophy & ethics

Philosophy & ethics sits within Ideas, Learning & Language. Compare ways of explaining, questioning, and communicating ideas across different subjects and traditions. This selection contains 98 catalog videos from 77 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, consciousness, epistemology and veganism. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, news, other and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"”, listed under Harvard University, is cataloged as lecture. The first episode of Michael Sandel's Harvard course on moral reasoning, opening with the trolley problem and the choice between killing one to save five. Sandel draws out student arguments and introduces…

“Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]”, listed under withDefiance, is cataloged as interview. The full 1971 Dutch television debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on human nature, with subtitles. They discuss creativity, knowledge, power and politics.

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