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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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2 mo on HNWhy You Will Marry the Wrong Person
The School of Life
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNGregory Chaitin - Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Closer To Truth
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HNYou Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
SisyphusRedeemed
1 HN recommend · 2013–2026
1 mo on HNWhy Libertarianism Is So Dangerous
School Sucks
1 HN recommend · 2013–2021
1 mo on HNNoam Chomsky - Freedom of Speech for Views You Don't Like
Chomsky's Philosophy
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HNJordan Peterson | ContraPoints
ContraPoints
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
1 mo on HNIntuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel Dennett | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2013–2024
1 mo on HNDoes the Past Still Exist?
Sabine Hossenfelder
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNThe Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNA kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain de Botton
TED
1 HN recommend · 2009–2021
1 mo on HNAntifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HNSlavoj Žižek | Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting? | Big Think
Big Think
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023
1 mo on HNData | Philosophy Tube
Philosophy Tube
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman justifies not recalling the ford pinto
RepublicansSuckDlCK
1 HN recommend · 2015–2019
1 mo on HNMarxism: Zizek/Peterson: Official Video
Jordan B Peterson
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNRichard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNZizek on toilets
Diego Cumplido
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNIs the Universe a Simulation? | 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
American Museum of Natural History
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNBonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
Sprouts
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
0 mo on HNIsn't the purpose of work just making money?
mr1001nights
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNAlan Watts - On Prickles and Goo
Jamie Anderson
0 HN recommender · 2017–2026
0 mo on HNDonald Rumsfeld Unknown Unknowns !
Ali
0 HN recommender · 2015–2017
0 mo on HNRUMSFELD / KNOWNS
CNN
0 HN recommender · 2019–2026
0 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Your Greed or Their Greed?
safvio
0 HN recommender · 2009–2023
0 mo on HNRichard Feynman: The Beauty of the Flower
FreeScienceLectures
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HNDavid Deutsch: Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
TED
0 HN recommender · 2016–2025