Best YouTube videos on Philosophy & Big Ideas
4 videos our team picked as worth your time. Paste any of them into YouTube Collector for the full transcript, a chaptered summary, and search across everything you save.
Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (1/2) | DW Documentary
How much is enough? A thoughtful essay-film on greed, money and the good life, asking what we're really chasing, and whether it makes us happy. (Published 13 Jan 2017)
Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy (Bryan Magee & Frederick Copleston, 1987)
A classic BBC conversation exploring Schopenhauer's bracing pessimism, the world as blind "will," art and compassion as escapes from suffering, and his influence on Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein. (Published 22 Aug 2023)
The Great Philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche (J. P. Stern & Bryan Magee, 1987)
Bryan Magee and Nietzsche scholar J. P. Stern unpack the death of God, the will to power, eternal recurrence, and Nietzsche's challenge to create meaning in a world without given values. (Published 27 Jun 2023)
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? — Ep 01 "The Moral Side of Murder" (Michael Sandel)
Harvard's legendary moral-philosophy course opens with the trolley problem: would you kill one person to save five? Michael Sandel uses gripping dilemmas to introduce utilitarianism and how we reason about right and wrong. (Published 4 Sep 2009)