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Philosophy & ethics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (98)

Philosophy & ethics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 98 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 262 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Philosophy: ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, Stoicism, moral philosophy, free will, meaning of life, political philosophy, philosophers, thought experiments.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]: “this documentary made me re-evaluate my diet.” — an HN commenter, 2020.

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12 mo on HN

Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]

Farm Transparency Project
10 HN recommender · 2019–2024
12 mo on HN

Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

Harvard University
11 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HN

We Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing

CGP Grey
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
11 mo on HN

Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
11 mo on HN

Music and Life - Alan Watts

seandulac
11 HN recommender · 2010–2022
7 mo on HN

The Egg - A Short Story

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
7 HN recommender · 2020–2024
7 mo on HN

The Machinery Of Freedom: Illustrated summary

bitbutter
4 HN recommender · 2012–2020
7 mo on HN

Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

John Vervaeke’s Lectern
6 HN recommender · 2019–2022
6 mo on HN

Toward Rational, Authentic Food Choices | Melanie Joy | TEDxMünchen

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

carlsagandotcom
5 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HN

Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]

withDefiance
6 HN recommender · 2015–2026
6 mo on HN

Optimistic Nihilism

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
5 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HN

Do Chairs Exist?

Vsauce
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HN

College Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"

College of DuPage
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
5 mo on HN

A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2018–2025
5 mo on HN

Richard Feynman on Pseudoscience

Jacob Edward
5 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HN

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal

Michael Sugrue
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HN

This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Full Speech

Joe Mita
5 HN recommender · 2015–2022
4 mo on HN

Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HN

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

I'm Allowed to Rob You!

Larken Rose
4 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HN

Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

Dani Dögenigt
1 HN recommend · 2009–2023
3 mo on HN

Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride

Bill Hicks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HN

Richard Feynman Magnets

nebulajr
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
3 mo on HN

Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)

Christian G
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

THIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace

The Actualization Agent
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN

The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)

UW Video
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HN

RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HN

Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019

CraftHub Events
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HN

The Trolley Problem in Real Life

Vsauce
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HN

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019

SXSW
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

07/27/1978

lasagnacat
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

The psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo

TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HN

Violence | Slavoj Žižek | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
4 HN recommender · 2010–2022
3 mo on HN

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia

Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026