Philosophy Articles and Videos by Topic
Some of these are things I've shown in class, others things I've discussed, and others are just for the curious. Also check here for articles and book/film summaries.
Random links that could be of interest:
Existential Comics (comic)
Dead Philosophers in Heaven (comic)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (better than Wikipedia)
Squashed Philosophy (useful to get the main ideas, but then read the text, right?)
- this one's good for figuring out which chapter of a text to read, but don't quote it
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (podcasts)
Partially Examined Life (podcasts)
Philosophy Bites (podcasts and books)
Crash Course in Philosophy (Hank Green videos)
Philosophy Time (James Franco talks briefly with philosophers)
Critical Theory
Philosophy Now (magazine)
Philosophy Journal for Undergrads (magazine)
Philosophize This! (podcasts)
Free Philosophy Courses (podcasts)
Institute for Art and Ideas (videos)
Philosophy Tube (videos)
UK A-level Criteria (curriculum documents)
Academia.edu (academic papers in philosophy)
Exploring Philosophy (Open University podcasts)
Reading list of most important books developed by many philosophy profs
Introduction to Philosophy:
What is Philosophy For? (5 min video) - School of Life
What's the point of philosophy (Scientific American article)
You can actually make $$$ with a philosophy degree! (Yahoo Finance article)
On the drive to create meaning (New York Times article)
How philosophy helped with a medical degree (Washington Post article)
Philosophy for Laymen (Bertrand Russell, 1946)
Philosophy and Morality (NY Times article)
On Sophists and Bad Argumentation (52 min podcast)
Some fun thought experiments
Why do philosophy? (PEL 75 min podcast)
Logic and Critical Thinking:
An organized overview of logical fallacies (Stephen Downes list)
Philosophy Toolkit (Aeon article on argumentation)
Premises, Valid and Sound Arguments (Crash Course 5 min. video)
Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" (Brain Pickings article)
Inductive and Abductive Reasoning (Crash Course 10 min. video)
Fallacy Man - cartoon
How to analyze arguments - Philosophy Now article
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit - (Films for Action article)
No it's not your opinion (Houston Press article)
No, you're not entitled to your opinion (Quartz article)
On Cognitive Biases (Daily Nous post)
Affirming the Consequent (3 min video)
Denying the Antecedent (3 min video)
Straw Man Fallacy (5 min video)
False Cause Fallacy (5 min video)
Appeal to Consensus (4 min video)
Begging the Question (4 min video)
Formal Fallacies (4 min video)
Ambiguous (6 min video)
Hasty Generalization (Composition - 4 min video)
Prejudice (Division - 5 min video)
Ad Hominem (6 min video)
The Socratic Method (comic)
On B.S. (Harry Frankfurt essay)
An organized overview of logical fallacies (Stephen Downes list)
Philosophy Toolkit (Aeon article on argumentation)
Premises, Valid and Sound Arguments (Crash Course 5 min. video)
Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" (Brain Pickings article)
Inductive and Abductive Reasoning (Crash Course 10 min. video)
Fallacy Man - cartoon
How to analyze arguments - Philosophy Now article
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit - (Films for Action article)
No it's not your opinion (Houston Press article)
No, you're not entitled to your opinion (Quartz article)
On Cognitive Biases (Daily Nous post)
Affirming the Consequent (3 min video)
Denying the Antecedent (3 min video)
Straw Man Fallacy (5 min video)
False Cause Fallacy (5 min video)
Appeal to Consensus (4 min video)
Begging the Question (4 min video)
Formal Fallacies (4 min video)
Ambiguous (6 min video)
Hasty Generalization (Composition - 4 min video)
Prejudice (Division - 5 min video)
Ad Hominem (6 min video)
The Socratic Method (comic)
On B.S. (Harry Frankfurt essay)
Epistemology:
Epistemology Reading Package - Primary Source Documents
Skepticism (cartoon)
Integrated Information Theory - Plato was right (Quartz article)
Plato's Cave and the Nature of Reality (Crash Course - 9 min. video)
A bit about Descartes (9 min video) - School of Life
Descartes (60 min podcast) - PEL
Poisoning theory of Decartes' death (Guardian article)
Descartes ideas taken from Teresa of Avila (Quartz article)
Scientism and Skepticism: Reply to Pinker (Berfroid article)
Reply to Spinoza on Free Will (Talking Philosophy blogpost)
The Dark Side of Believing in Free Will (Gregg Caruso TED Talk)
Hume's Buddhist connection (The Atlantic article)
Hume's Empiricism (PEL podcast)
Kant destroys Hume's skepticism (cartoon)
Locke's Empiricism and Berkeley too (Crash Course 10 min. video)
Curious George and the Limits of Empiricism (Existential Comics cartoon)
The case for teaching ignorance (New York Times article)
Chomsky on Hume's Empiricism and Kant's Rationalism (5 min video)
External Compulsion - pressured to kill himself (Daily Mail article)
TEL: Is Morality Relative?
Philosophers discussing free will (97 min video)
Epistemology Reading Package - Primary Source Documents
Skepticism (cartoon)
Integrated Information Theory - Plato was right (Quartz article)
Plato's Cave and the Nature of Reality (Crash Course - 9 min. video)
A bit about Descartes (9 min video) - School of Life
Descartes (60 min podcast) - PEL
Poisoning theory of Decartes' death (Guardian article)
Descartes ideas taken from Teresa of Avila (Quartz article)
Scientism and Skepticism: Reply to Pinker (Berfroid article)
Reply to Spinoza on Free Will (Talking Philosophy blogpost)
The Dark Side of Believing in Free Will (Gregg Caruso TED Talk)
Hume's Buddhist connection (The Atlantic article)
Hume's Empiricism (PEL podcast)
Kant destroys Hume's skepticism (cartoon)
Locke's Empiricism and Berkeley too (Crash Course 10 min. video)
Curious George and the Limits of Empiricism (Existential Comics cartoon)
The case for teaching ignorance (New York Times article)
Chomsky on Hume's Empiricism and Kant's Rationalism (5 min video)
External Compulsion - pressured to kill himself (Daily Mail article)
TEL: Is Morality Relative?
Philosophers discussing free will (97 min video)
The Virtuous Life: (human nature and ethics)
Virtuous Life Reading Package
Why Environmentalism Needs to be Legislated - Snyder's notion of the virtuous life.
The Secret of Happiness (infographic)
Exploration of several ethical dilemmas (Michael Sandel 55 min video series)
Socrates
Plato
Plato (5 min video) - School of Life
Epicurus
Epicurus (5.5 min video) - School of Life
Epicurus school - cartoon
Can We be Rich and Ethical? (Epicurus, Thoreau) - Snyder
On Fear (Montaigne, Epicurus) - Snyder
On Addictive Pleasure and the Fear of Death (Epicurus) - Snyder
Compared to "positive hedonists" (Aristippus - Cyrenaic School) - Autarkist
Jesus
Philosophy Introduction, on Prudence, and on Shocking Images (PEL articles)
Epictetus (Stoics)
Stoics (5 min video) - School of Life
Being stoic in today's society (3 AM Magazine interview)
How stoicism relieves anxiety (13 min video)
Epictetus playing Sorry - cartoon
Stoic contest - cartoon
Stoic experience of death (5 min video) - Pigliucci
A Stoic Resurgence (Stoicism) - Snyder
On Stoic Environmentalism (Epictetus) - Snyder
The Stoic Life: Epictetus (60 min. podcast) - Pigliucci
How to be Stoic (New York Times - Pigliucci)
Stoicism 101 (60 min video)
Benefits of Stoicism (Aeon article)
Stoicism's effect on sexuality (BBC article)
Comedy act - Michael Connell (30 min video)
Lao Tzu (Taoists)
Tao Te Ching (Mitchell translation - primary source)
Doing What We Do in an Honourable Way (Taoism) - Snyder
A Crisis of Environmental Faith (Taoism) - Snyder
The Tao of Environmentalism (Tao, Plato) - Snyder
Chang Tzu - PEL podcast)
Wu Wei (5 min video)
Christian criticisms of Taoism
Existentialism
Door to Door Existentialism - cartoon
On the Titanic and Tolstoy (Tolstoy, Existentialism) - Snyder
On an Impressive Stupidity (Sartre, Existentialism) - Snyder
Solomon on Existentialism (Sartre, Existentialism) - Waking Life video
Existentialist Muffins (Sartre, Existentialism) - cartoon
10 Reasons to be an Existentialist (Guardian article)
Freedom Terminator (Dostoyevsky and de Beauvoir) - cartoon
Sartre in 10 minutes - Dodson video
Sartre's Bad Faith (4 min video) - School of Life
And Leo DiCaprio's house sale (interview - sort of)
On Sartre's Being and Nothingness (Philosophy Now article)
On Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism (Philosophy Now article)
Existentialism in Bojack Horseman (15 min.)
Walter Kaufman lectures on Nietzsche and Sartre
Notes on Nausea (Sartre)
Aristotle
Aristotle Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
Criticism of Aristotle
Aristotle (7.5 min video) - School of Life
Aristotle: Is Ethics based on Virtue? (27 min video) - TEL
Hume
Hume Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
On Kindness (Hume) - Snyder
Moving Beyond the Rational (Hume, and religion debate) - Snyder
Why some people buy into is-to-ought morality (Hume) - The Conversation
Who is Hume (Oxford University Press)
Kant
Kant Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
On Kant (8 min video) - School of Life, BUT the categorical imperative is
NOT "do unto others" - Kant specifically says he intended to go beyond this idea
Kant categorial imperative in 30 seconds (30 seconds video)
A quick summary of his ideas (handout)
Can morality help ethical dilemmas? (27 min video - TEL)
Kant: Can rules define morality? (27 min video - TEL)
Kant podcast - PEL
About Kant - Philosophy Now article
Kant song (5 min video)
Thoreau
Thoreau Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
On Monbiot's Manifesto (Thoreau) - Snyder
Zinn's Civil Disobedience (5 min video)
On Walden's Pond (27 min podcast) - Philosophize This!
Nietzsche
Nietzsche Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
Nietzsche (7 min video) - School of Life
Nietzsche in 12 minutes - Dodson video
Nietzsche's ethics - PEL podcast
Nietzsche song - 4 min video
Mill
Mill Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
Mill's utilitarianism explained (secondary source)
Mill's Harm Principle explained (secondary source)
Utilitarian Ethics - PEL podcast
Criticism - Wrongfulness isn't contingent on harm. (Gladwell)
Freud
Freud Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
On God, Our Invisible Parents (Freud) - Snyder
On Pleasure and Pain (Freud) - Snyder
On How to Be Happy (Freud) - Snyder
Rand
Rand Ethics - PRIMARY SOURCE PDF
Problems with Rand's moral theory (Raw Story article)
Rand - How is she still a thing? (LWT 3 min. video)
Blank on Blank (6 min video)
Rand on a 70s talk show (45 min video)
Other
Problems with Peter Singer's infanticide theory. (NYT article)
Link between moral integrity and the self (Aeon article)
Euthanasia for depression (21 min video)
The Avengers: Kant v Mill (The Guardian article)
Indicators of an ethical market (Stanford article)
Confucius Ethics - primary source PDF
Mengzi - secondary source
Bertrand Russell Ethics - primary source PDF
Jung Ethics - primary source PDF
The Virtuous State: (politics)
Reading package is divided among each philosopher below (first link)
Economics in 30 min (video) or in full in print (Hazlitt)
What Justifies the State (TEL - overview of philosophers - 27 min video)
What is Justice (TEL - 27 min video)
A cartoon outlining the exchange of power over the centuries - sort of.
Charles Taylor on Crises of Democracy (67 min lecture) and our unenchanted world (article) and in the New Yorker (article)
Weird cartoon on the history of the world - 5 min video (more here)
On the Social Contract Theory - Martha Nussbaum - 8 min video
On Chomsky - Snyder
Chomksy cartoon
On Equality and Liberty (Philosophy Now article)
Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century - Snyder
How a dumbed-down nation lost sight of the American Dream - The Guardian
What the 1% Don't Want you to Know (Moyers and Krugman on Piketty)
Penn Jillette on Libertarian (18 min video)
Plato
Republic (primary source)
Philosopher Kings (BBC 2 min. video)
Connecting our current democracy to Plato's Republic - NY Mag article
Plato's history (The Atlantic article)
Hobbes
Leviathan (primary source)
On Hobbes' Political Philosophy (secondary source)
On Hobbes (secondary source)
Social Contract Ethics (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
Hobbes podcast (98 min - PEL)
Locke
Two Treatises on Civil Government (primary source)
On Locke's Limited Government (secondary source)
On Locke's Two Treatises (secondary source)
On Locke (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
A Brief History of Capitalism (School of Life 11 min. video)
Can Capitalism and Democracy Co-Exist (Real News 3 hour video)
On Locke's Religious Tolerance (BBC 2 min video)
Rousseau
Social Contract (primary source)
On Rousseau's Social Contract (secondary source)
On learning and the social contract (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
Mill
On Liberty (primary source)
On Mill's Liberty (secondary source)
On Mill's Politics (secondary source)
On Mill (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
TEL: Utilitarianism: Does the end justify the means? - 27 min video
On John Stuart Mill, Free Speech, and Climate Change (Mill) - Snyder
Marx
Communist Manifesto (primary source)
On Marx's Alientation of Labor (secondary source)
Marxism explained (Garvey article)
Snyder's notes
On a Four-Hour Workday (Russell, Marx) - Snyder
Marx on Alienation (BBC 2 min. video)
Karl Marx was Right (Truthdig article)
What Marx was Really Saying (Truthdig article)
Rosa Luxemburg's Marxism (Truthout cartoon)
Course on Marx's Das Capital (Open Culture video series)
Marx's Biography (Brain Pickings cartoon)
Marx vs Rand on capitalism (cartoon)
Anarchy
Inalienable Tenets of Anarchism (primary source - Albert Meltzger)
In Defence of Anarchism (primary source - Robert Paul Wolff)
Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman)
On Emma Goldman (secondary source)
Emma Goldman 6 min video
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
Indigenous Political Philosophy
Red Pedagogy - Sandy Grande
Exemplar of Liberty - Grinde and Johansen (see Ch. 4: Ennobling Savages)
Native American Political Theory - Richard Day
Other Political Readings:
Perpetual Peace - Kant (primary source)
How to Spot Fascism (cartoon)
Hegel on Wall Street (NYT article)
Marx vs Hegel via Zizak (Philosophy Now article)
Living in End Times and Trouble in Paradise - Zizak (primary source)
Capitalism with de Beauvoir, Foucault and more (Existential comics)
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (primary source)
About Smith's Free Trade ideas (secondary source)
Smith's Invisible Hand (BBC 2 min. video)
Are people better than animals (Films for Action 73 min video)
Democracy Incorporated (Wolin)
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt) and abridged
The Traffic in Women (Goldman)
Kant's politics (The Science of Right)
Defending Enlightenment's Legacy (Rousseau, Locke, Heidegger...)
Accelerationism (Guardian article)
Reading package is divided among each philosopher below (first link)
Economics in 30 min (video) or in full in print (Hazlitt)
What Justifies the State (TEL - overview of philosophers - 27 min video)
What is Justice (TEL - 27 min video)
A cartoon outlining the exchange of power over the centuries - sort of.
Charles Taylor on Crises of Democracy (67 min lecture) and our unenchanted world (article) and in the New Yorker (article)
Weird cartoon on the history of the world - 5 min video (more here)
On the Social Contract Theory - Martha Nussbaum - 8 min video
On Chomsky - Snyder
Chomksy cartoon
On Equality and Liberty (Philosophy Now article)
Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century - Snyder
How a dumbed-down nation lost sight of the American Dream - The Guardian
What the 1% Don't Want you to Know (Moyers and Krugman on Piketty)
Penn Jillette on Libertarian (18 min video)
Plato
Republic (primary source)
Philosopher Kings (BBC 2 min. video)
Connecting our current democracy to Plato's Republic - NY Mag article
Plato's history (The Atlantic article)
Hobbes
Leviathan (primary source)
On Hobbes' Political Philosophy (secondary source)
On Hobbes (secondary source)
Social Contract Ethics (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
Hobbes podcast (98 min - PEL)
Locke
Two Treatises on Civil Government (primary source)
On Locke's Limited Government (secondary source)
On Locke's Two Treatises (secondary source)
On Locke (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
A Brief History of Capitalism (School of Life 11 min. video)
Can Capitalism and Democracy Co-Exist (Real News 3 hour video)
On Locke's Religious Tolerance (BBC 2 min video)
Rousseau
Social Contract (primary source)
On Rousseau's Social Contract (secondary source)
On learning and the social contract (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
Mill
On Liberty (primary source)
On Mill's Liberty (secondary source)
On Mill's Politics (secondary source)
On Mill (secondary source)
Snyder's notes
TEL: Utilitarianism: Does the end justify the means? - 27 min video
On John Stuart Mill, Free Speech, and Climate Change (Mill) - Snyder
Marx
Communist Manifesto (primary source)
On Marx's Alientation of Labor (secondary source)
Marxism explained (Garvey article)
Snyder's notes
On a Four-Hour Workday (Russell, Marx) - Snyder
Marx on Alienation (BBC 2 min. video)
Karl Marx was Right (Truthdig article)
What Marx was Really Saying (Truthdig article)
Rosa Luxemburg's Marxism (Truthout cartoon)
Course on Marx's Das Capital (Open Culture video series)
Marx's Biography (Brain Pickings cartoon)
Marx vs Rand on capitalism (cartoon)
Anarchy
Inalienable Tenets of Anarchism (primary source - Albert Meltzger)
In Defence of Anarchism (primary source - Robert Paul Wolff)
Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman)
On Emma Goldman (secondary source)
Emma Goldman 6 min video
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
Indigenous Political Philosophy
Red Pedagogy - Sandy Grande
Exemplar of Liberty - Grinde and Johansen (see Ch. 4: Ennobling Savages)
Native American Political Theory - Richard Day
Other Political Readings:
Perpetual Peace - Kant (primary source)
How to Spot Fascism (cartoon)
Hegel on Wall Street (NYT article)
Marx vs Hegel via Zizak (Philosophy Now article)
Living in End Times and Trouble in Paradise - Zizak (primary source)
Capitalism with de Beauvoir, Foucault and more (Existential comics)
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (primary source)
About Smith's Free Trade ideas (secondary source)
Smith's Invisible Hand (BBC 2 min. video)
Are people better than animals (Films for Action 73 min video)
Democracy Incorporated (Wolin)
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt) and abridged
The Traffic in Women (Goldman)
Kant's politics (The Science of Right)
Defending Enlightenment's Legacy (Rousseau, Locke, Heidegger...)
Accelerationism (Guardian article)
The Virtuous Relationship: (love, sex, and friendship)
Sex, Love, and Friendship Reading Package
Bad romance lessons from movies (8 min video)
On Trigger Warnings (Salon article)
On Boundaries: Mary Bryson, Steven Galloway, and Jordan Peterson
On Work and Love (Freud) - Snyder
On Finding Meaning Through Love - Snyder
On Our Continued Sexual Repression (Freud, Montaigne) - Snyder
On Sexual Perversions (Freud) - Snyder
On Excuses for Not Having Sex - Snyder
Of Friendship (Seneca, Montaigne, Aristotle) - Snyder
Do your friends actually like you? - NYT article
Nietzsche on Love - Verkerk
Hedges on Pornography - Truthdig article
Brand on Pornography (Trews 8 min. video)
Can porn we good for us (Economist debate)
Chomsky on porn (3 min video)
Prostitution is racist (Independent article)
Beauvoir on Social Construction of Women (BBC 2 min. video)
On banning sex robots (RT article)
On the harm of romantic novels (Alain Botton article)
Of Chastity and Modesty (Hume)
How romanticism ruined relationships (Alain Botton - 5 min video)
Consenting Adults (Kant - Treat People as Ends)
Sexual Ethics Readings (Pojman packet)
Existentialists on Love (Cleary - 56 min video)
On friendship breakups (Star article)
Schwimmer's sexual harassment videos (Upworthy)
On casual sex
Why sex robots are dangerous (Telegraph)
Sex, Love, and Friendship Reading Package
Bad romance lessons from movies (8 min video)
On Trigger Warnings (Salon article)
On Boundaries: Mary Bryson, Steven Galloway, and Jordan Peterson
On Work and Love (Freud) - Snyder
On Finding Meaning Through Love - Snyder
On Our Continued Sexual Repression (Freud, Montaigne) - Snyder
On Sexual Perversions (Freud) - Snyder
On Excuses for Not Having Sex - Snyder
Of Friendship (Seneca, Montaigne, Aristotle) - Snyder
Do your friends actually like you? - NYT article
Nietzsche on Love - Verkerk
Hedges on Pornography - Truthdig article
Brand on Pornography (Trews 8 min. video)
Can porn we good for us (Economist debate)
Chomsky on porn (3 min video)
Prostitution is racist (Independent article)
Beauvoir on Social Construction of Women (BBC 2 min. video)
On banning sex robots (RT article)
On the harm of romantic novels (Alain Botton article)
Of Chastity and Modesty (Hume)
How romanticism ruined relationships (Alain Botton - 5 min video)
Consenting Adults (Kant - Treat People as Ends)
Sexual Ethics Readings (Pojman packet)
Existentialists on Love (Cleary - 56 min video)
On friendship breakups (Star article)
Schwimmer's sexual harassment videos (Upworthy)
On casual sex
Why sex robots are dangerous (Telegraph)
Philosophy in Pop Culture: (random links that don't quite fit above)
General Help for Understanding a Philosopher:
AVOID: Goodreads, Quotations.com, etc. - entirely out of context
USE LIGHTLY AND DON'T SOURCE: Wikipedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - search for a straightforward explanations
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - search for a more in-depth explanation
Philosophy Now - search for secondary commentary on philosophers
Partially Examined Life - search for podcasts that thoroughly discuss readings
Information Philosopher - search for quick explanations and background
Classics Archive and Project Gutenberg have tons of primary source readings
General Help for Finding a Topic:
Essential Movies for a Student of Philosophy - Whitlock
On laughter and philosophy (27 min video)
Film - Philosophy (an entire journal connecting philosophy to film!)
Some female philosophers (sorry for the male-centeredness of the course)
Inception and the Nature of Reality (Crash Course 9 min. video)
Aquinas:
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Explained by Albert (primary and secondary source)
Aristotle:
On revenge (Rhetoric - primary source)
Happiness (Nicomachean Ethics - primary source)
On Cause and Chance (primary source)
On Pleasure and Happiness (primary source)
Explained by deWitt Hyde (secondary source)
Is Aristotle right about friendship (secondary source)
Criticisms of Aristotle's ethics (secondary source)
A defence of Aristotle (secondary source)
Augustine:
How he invented sex (secondary source)
Arendt:
Origin of Totalitarianism (sections - primary source)
Love letters to Heidegger (Open Culture - primary and secondary)
Aurelius:
The Meditations (primary source)
Beauvoir:
The Second Sex (primary source)
The Ethics of Ambiguity (primary source)
Existentialist Comics
How her philosophy resonates today (secondary source)
The 9 people you'll date (secondary source)
Buddhism:
On the idea of no-self (secondary source)
Camus (and the Existentialists):
Camus and the Absurd (secondary source)
Camus and Absurdity - PEL podcast
Camus in NYC - LA Review of Books
Camus vs Sartre's politics (BBC film - 9 min.)
Camus in 10 minutes - Dodson video
An analysis of The Stranger - The Gemsbok blogpost
cartoon
Confucius:
Explanation (primary and secondary sources)
Descartes:
Aesthetic quotes (primary and secondary sources)
Dewey:
The Process of Scientific Thinking (primary source)
Humanism: a Modern Religion (primary source)
Epictetus (and the Stoics):
Virtue and the Highest Good (primary source)
Stoic Competition (comic)
Epictetus compared to Buddhism (secondary source)
Stoic principles (Robertson - secondary source)
Epicurus:
Explained, Letter to Menoeceus, Principle Doctrines (primary/secondary)
Compared to hedonism (secondary source)
Explained by deWitt Hyde (secondary source)
Explained by deBotton (secondary source)
Criticism of friendship ideas (secondary critique)
Explained in really simple terms (secondary source)
Existentialism:
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Foot:
Natural Goodness (primary source)
Freud:
On God, Our Invisible Parents (Freud on atheism) - Snyder
Goldman:
The Traffic in Women (primary source)
Hegel:
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (primary source)
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Explained by Garvey (secondary source)
The difficulty with Hegel (secondary source)
Political community and individual freedom in Hegel (secondary source)
Heidegger:
Heidegger (5.5 min video) - School of Life
Heidegger in 12 minutes - Dodson video
Movies about Heidegger - Taste of Cinema
Hobbes:
Human Nature and Political Power (primary source)
In Defence of Dictatorship (primary source)
James:
On Habit (primary source)
Pragmatism (primary source)
The Will to Believe (primary source)
Pragmatism, Faith, and War (primary and secondary sources)
Explained by Durant (secondary source)
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Jesus:
The Christian Spirit of Love (secondary source)
A Sketch of Christianity (secondary source)
Jung:
Jung Ethics - primary source PDF
Jung on accepting the darkness within us (8 min video)
Jung on the importance of death (4 min video)
Jung on the problem child (secondary source)
Archetypes explained (12 min video)
Kierkegaard (and Existentialism):
On Subjectivity (The Exhausted World) - Philosop-her
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Kierkegaard on religion - Aeon
Kierkegaard in 19 minutes - Dodson video
Kierkegaard relating to the common man - cartoon
Kierkegaard's notion of subjectivity (secondary - wrt Son of Saul)
Locke:
On Locke's empiricism
Machiavelli:
The Prince (primary source)
Good Guy or Bad (bio article)
On the Prince
Is the Prince a satire?
How Machiavelli Trolled Europe (article)
His life and his work in context (History Today)
Marx:
Critique of Hegel - opiate of the masses one (primary source)
The Germany Ideology (primary source)
Explanation of the dominant ideology (secondary source)
Cartoon
Marxist Media Theory (secondary source - supporting Marx)
Ideology, Hegemony, Discourse (secondary source)
Fromm on Marx's concept of man (secondary source)
Mill:
On Nature (primary source)
Free Will, Man, and History (primary source)
Mill's precursors - history of utilitarianism (3am Magazine interview)
Montaigne:
His essays (primary source)
His essays (another primary source)
On Montaigne's ethics (de Botton)
Rousseau's opinion of him (article)
The genius of Montaigne (article)
On Montaigne (scholarly secondary source)
On Judging Evilness in Others (Montaigne, Tolstoy) - Snyder
On Virtue and Intention (Montaigne) - Snyder
On Mindfulness (Hanh, Tolstoy, Montaigne) - Snyder
Nietzsche:
Nietzsche tries speed dating - cartoon
The Song of Zarathustra (primary source - God is dead - his new religion)
The Origin of Morals (primary source)
The Will to Power (primary source - nihilism)
On the Genealogy of Morals (primary source - master/slave at beginning)
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Explained by de Botton (secondary source)
Apollo and Dionysus (primary source)
Nietzsche on RuPaul (secondary source)
Noddings:
Videos of her explaining her ideas (lectures - primary source)
A Relational Approach to Ethics (primary source)
Nussbaum:
Anger and Forgiveness (primary source)
2017 Jefferson Lecture (primary source)
The Philosopher of Feelings (secondary source)
On Anger and the Rise of Trump (secondary source)
Plato:
On the Beautiful (primary source)
Rand:
The Virtue of Selfishness (primary source)
Selfishness explained (secondary source)
Rousseau:
On learning and the social contract (secondary source)
Sartre
Existentialism is a Humanism (primary source)
On Sartre's understanding of death - academic paper
Lecture notes on Sartre - Professor Paul Vincent Spade
Existentialism (by Stumpf - secondary source)
A student's guide to Sartre (secondary source)
Sartre biography (secondary source)
comic
Schopenhauer:
Explained and On Art and Music (primary and secondary)
On Religion (primary source)
Seneca (and the Stoics):
On the Shortness of Life (primary source)
Moral Letters to Lucilius (primary source)
Explained by de Botton (secondary source)
On Luxuries and Necessities (Seneca) - Snyder
Video about his life
On the Shortness of Life (5 min video)
Criticism of how he lived (Guardian article)
Skinner:
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (primary source)
Skinner on Freedom and Dignity (secondary source)
Socrates:
Explained by de Botton (secondary source)
Tolstoy
Confession (primary source)
The Death of Ivan Illych (primary source - a philosophical novel)
An analysis of The Death of Ivan Illych - The Gemsbok blogpost
About his Confessions (Brain Pickings - secondary source)
About his life
Review of The Last Station
Wittgenstein
On his early years (The Paris Review article)
On the Environment:
On Environmental Intensions (Hedonism, Mill, Nietzsche, Taoism) - Snyder
On Religion:
Is Religion a Force for Good in the World (106 min video) - Hitchens vs Blair debate
Debate with Sam Harris and Reza Aslan (130 min video)
The Meaning of Life (12 min video) - Minchin
The Death Problem (5 min video) - Silva
On the sublime at death (cartoon)
On Gender:
Gender is not a spectrum - Reilly-Cooper article
Understanding gender - Naomi Lauren article and video on false-consensus effect
Philosophy in Pop Culture: (random links that don't quite fit above)
General Help for Understanding a Philosopher:
AVOID: Goodreads, Quotations.com, etc. - entirely out of context
USE LIGHTLY AND DON'T SOURCE: Wikipedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - search for a straightforward explanations
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - search for a more in-depth explanation
Philosophy Now - search for secondary commentary on philosophers
Partially Examined Life - search for podcasts that thoroughly discuss readings
Information Philosopher - search for quick explanations and background
Classics Archive and Project Gutenberg have tons of primary source readings
General Help for Finding a Topic:
Essential Movies for a Student of Philosophy - Whitlock
On laughter and philosophy (27 min video)
Film - Philosophy (an entire journal connecting philosophy to film!)
Some female philosophers (sorry for the male-centeredness of the course)
Inception and the Nature of Reality (Crash Course 9 min. video)
Aquinas:
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Explained by Albert (primary and secondary source)
Aristotle:
On revenge (Rhetoric - primary source)
Happiness (Nicomachean Ethics - primary source)
On Cause and Chance (primary source)
On Pleasure and Happiness (primary source)
Explained by deWitt Hyde (secondary source)
Is Aristotle right about friendship (secondary source)
Criticisms of Aristotle's ethics (secondary source)
A defence of Aristotle (secondary source)
Augustine:
How he invented sex (secondary source)
Arendt:
Origin of Totalitarianism (sections - primary source)
Love letters to Heidegger (Open Culture - primary and secondary)
Aurelius:
The Meditations (primary source)
Beauvoir:
The Second Sex (primary source)
The Ethics of Ambiguity (primary source)
Existentialist Comics
How her philosophy resonates today (secondary source)
The 9 people you'll date (secondary source)
Buddhism:
On the idea of no-self (secondary source)
Camus (and the Existentialists):
Camus and the Absurd (secondary source)
Camus and Absurdity - PEL podcast
Camus in NYC - LA Review of Books
Camus vs Sartre's politics (BBC film - 9 min.)
Camus in 10 minutes - Dodson video
An analysis of The Stranger - The Gemsbok blogpost
cartoon
Confucius:
Explanation (primary and secondary sources)
Descartes:
Aesthetic quotes (primary and secondary sources)
Dewey:
The Process of Scientific Thinking (primary source)
Humanism: a Modern Religion (primary source)
Epictetus (and the Stoics):
Virtue and the Highest Good (primary source)
Stoic Competition (comic)
Epictetus compared to Buddhism (secondary source)
Stoic principles (Robertson - secondary source)
Epicurus:
Explained, Letter to Menoeceus, Principle Doctrines (primary/secondary)
Compared to hedonism (secondary source)
Explained by deWitt Hyde (secondary source)
Explained by deBotton (secondary source)
Criticism of friendship ideas (secondary critique)
Explained in really simple terms (secondary source)
Existentialism:
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Foot:
Natural Goodness (primary source)
Freud:
On God, Our Invisible Parents (Freud on atheism) - Snyder
Goldman:
The Traffic in Women (primary source)
Hegel:
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (primary source)
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Explained by Garvey (secondary source)
The difficulty with Hegel (secondary source)
Political community and individual freedom in Hegel (secondary source)
Heidegger:
Heidegger (5.5 min video) - School of Life
Heidegger in 12 minutes - Dodson video
Movies about Heidegger - Taste of Cinema
Hobbes:
Human Nature and Political Power (primary source)
In Defence of Dictatorship (primary source)
James:
On Habit (primary source)
Pragmatism (primary source)
The Will to Believe (primary source)
Pragmatism, Faith, and War (primary and secondary sources)
Explained by Durant (secondary source)
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Jesus:
The Christian Spirit of Love (secondary source)
A Sketch of Christianity (secondary source)
Jung:
Jung Ethics - primary source PDF
Jung on accepting the darkness within us (8 min video)
Jung on the importance of death (4 min video)
Jung on the problem child (secondary source)
Archetypes explained (12 min video)
Kierkegaard (and Existentialism):
On Subjectivity (The Exhausted World) - Philosop-her
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Kierkegaard on religion - Aeon
Kierkegaard in 19 minutes - Dodson video
Kierkegaard relating to the common man - cartoon
Kierkegaard's notion of subjectivity (secondary - wrt Son of Saul)
Locke:
On Locke's empiricism
Machiavelli:
The Prince (primary source)
Good Guy or Bad (bio article)
On the Prince
Is the Prince a satire?
How Machiavelli Trolled Europe (article)
His life and his work in context (History Today)
Marx:
Critique of Hegel - opiate of the masses one (primary source)
The Germany Ideology (primary source)
Explanation of the dominant ideology (secondary source)
Cartoon
Marxist Media Theory (secondary source - supporting Marx)
Ideology, Hegemony, Discourse (secondary source)
Fromm on Marx's concept of man (secondary source)
Mill:
On Nature (primary source)
Free Will, Man, and History (primary source)
Mill's precursors - history of utilitarianism (3am Magazine interview)
Montaigne:
His essays (primary source)
His essays (another primary source)
On Montaigne's ethics (de Botton)
Rousseau's opinion of him (article)
The genius of Montaigne (article)
On Montaigne (scholarly secondary source)
On Judging Evilness in Others (Montaigne, Tolstoy) - Snyder
On Virtue and Intention (Montaigne) - Snyder
On Mindfulness (Hanh, Tolstoy, Montaigne) - Snyder
Nietzsche:
Nietzsche tries speed dating - cartoon
The Song of Zarathustra (primary source - God is dead - his new religion)
The Origin of Morals (primary source)
The Will to Power (primary source - nihilism)
On the Genealogy of Morals (primary source - master/slave at beginning)
Explained by Stumpf (secondary source)
Explained by de Botton (secondary source)
Apollo and Dionysus (primary source)
Nietzsche on RuPaul (secondary source)
Noddings:
Videos of her explaining her ideas (lectures - primary source)
A Relational Approach to Ethics (primary source)
Nussbaum:
Anger and Forgiveness (primary source)
2017 Jefferson Lecture (primary source)
The Philosopher of Feelings (secondary source)
On Anger and the Rise of Trump (secondary source)
Plato:
On the Beautiful (primary source)
Rand:
The Virtue of Selfishness (primary source)
Selfishness explained (secondary source)
Rousseau:
On learning and the social contract (secondary source)
Sartre
Existentialism is a Humanism (primary source)
On Sartre's understanding of death - academic paper
Lecture notes on Sartre - Professor Paul Vincent Spade
Existentialism (by Stumpf - secondary source)
A student's guide to Sartre (secondary source)
Sartre biography (secondary source)
comic
Schopenhauer:
Explained and On Art and Music (primary and secondary)
On Religion (primary source)
Seneca (and the Stoics):
On the Shortness of Life (primary source)
Moral Letters to Lucilius (primary source)
Explained by de Botton (secondary source)
On Luxuries and Necessities (Seneca) - Snyder
Video about his life
On the Shortness of Life (5 min video)
Criticism of how he lived (Guardian article)
Skinner:
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (primary source)
Skinner on Freedom and Dignity (secondary source)
Socrates:
Explained by de Botton (secondary source)
Tolstoy
Confession (primary source)
The Death of Ivan Illych (primary source - a philosophical novel)
An analysis of The Death of Ivan Illych - The Gemsbok blogpost
About his Confessions (Brain Pickings - secondary source)
About his life
Review of The Last Station
Wittgenstein
On his early years (The Paris Review article)
On the Environment:
On Environmental Intensions (Hedonism, Mill, Nietzsche, Taoism) - Snyder
On Religion:
Is Religion a Force for Good in the World (106 min video) - Hitchens vs Blair debate
Debate with Sam Harris and Reza Aslan (130 min video)
The Meaning of Life (12 min video) - Minchin
The Death Problem (5 min video) - Silva
On the sublime at death (cartoon)
On Gender:
Gender is not a spectrum - Reilly-Cooper article
Understanding gender - Naomi Lauren article and video on false-consensus effect
