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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.
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12 mo on HNDominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]
Farm Transparency Project
10 HN recommender · 2019–2024
12 mo on HNJustice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
Harvard University
11 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HNWe Were Taught to Call Death a Blessing
CGP Grey
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
11 mo on HNAlain de Botton: Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
11 mo on HNMusic and Life - Alan Watts
seandulac
11 HN recommender · 2010–2022
7 mo on HNThe Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
7 HN recommender · 2020–2024
7 mo on HNThe Machinery Of Freedom: Illustrated summary
bitbutter
4 HN recommender · 2012–2020
7 mo on HNEp. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction
John Vervaeke’s Lectern
6 HN recommender · 2019–2022
6 mo on HNToward Rational, Authentic Food Choices | Melanie Joy | TEDxMünchen
TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HNCarl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot
carlsagandotcom
5 HN recommender · 2011–2026
6 mo on HNDebate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]
withDefiance
6 HN recommender · 2015–2026
6 mo on HNOptimistic Nihilism
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
5 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HNDo Chairs Exist?
Vsauce
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNCollege Lecture Series - Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology"
College of DuPage
5 HN recommender · 2014–2025
5 mo on HNA Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNRichard Feynman on Pseudoscience
Jacob Edward
5 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNMarcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
Michael Sugrue
4 HN recommender · 2022–2025
4 mo on HNThis Is Water by David Foster Wallace Full Speech
Joe Mita
5 HN recommender · 2015–2022
4 mo on HNWhy Age? Should We End Aging Forever?
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HNIf Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNSlavoj Žižek + Paul Holdengräber "Surveillance and whistleblowers" - International Authors' Stage
Det Kgl. Bibliotek
3 HN recommender · 2014–2016
4 mo on HNI'm Allowed to Rob You!
Larken Rose
4 HN recommender · 2013–2017
3 mo on HNTerence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system
Dani Dögenigt
1 HN recommend · 2009–2023
3 mo on HNInformation, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNBill Hicks - It's Just A Ride
Bill Hicks
3 HN recommender · 2016–2025
3 mo on HNRichard Feynman Magnets
nebulajr
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
3 mo on HNSlavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)
Christian G
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNTHIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace
The Actualization Agent
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNThe Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)
UW Video
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Royal Society of Arts
3 HN recommender · 2011–2022
3 mo on HNAndreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering - Bryan Cantrill | Craft 2019
CraftHub Events
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HNThe Trolley Problem in Real Life
Vsauce
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNJailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz | SXSW 2019
SXSW
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN07/27/1978
lasagnacat
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNThe psychology of evil | Philip Zimbardo
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
3 mo on HNViolence | Slavoj Žižek | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
4 HN recommender · 2010–2022