How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED
Adults PhilosophyWhat makes for a meaningful life? Social psychologist Brian S. Lowery explores three ideas tied to the experience of meaning and shows why simply pursuing personal achievements isn't the best way to find it.
The Boltzmann Paradox
Youth PhilosophyHow do you know you’re a person rather than a just-formed brain full of artificial memories?
The Origin of Consciousness
Adults PhilosophyConsciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.
End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
Adults PhilosophySpace travel is the most exciting adventure for humanity, but in an irony of history we may stop ourselves from going into space the more we do it.
How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
Adults PhilosophyEvery star, black hole, human being, smartphone and atom are all constantly pulling on each other due to one force: gravity.
What Is A Paradox?
Adults PhilosophyA paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place
Adults PhilosophyWhy should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?
Open offices are overrated
Adults PhilosophyIf you work in an office, there's a good chance it's an open one. How did we get here? And why is it so bad?
How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston
Adults PhilosophyHow do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and shares some tips for appealing to an audience's ethos, logos, and pathos in your next speech.
LITERATURE - Voltaire
Adults PhilosophyVoltaire was one of the wisest, funniest and cleverest people of the 18th century. He continues to have lots to teach us about toleration, modesty and kindness.
Who am I? A philosophical inquiry - Amy Adkins
Adults PhilosophyThroughout the history of mankind, the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate, so it's probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch's Ship of Theseus.
PHILOSOPHY - Nietzsche
Adults PhilosophyNietzsche believed that the central task of philosophy was to teach us to 'become who we are'. Find out more by reading our book 'Life Lessons from Nietzsche '
Would you sacrifice one person to save five?
Adults PhilosophyImagine you're watching a runaway trolley barreling down the tracks, straight towards five workers. You happen to be standing next to a switch that will divert the trolley onto a second track.
Post-Truth: Why Facts Don't Matter Anymore
Adults PhilosophyWhy we can't seem to agree on what's true when it's easier than ever to check.
Plato's best (and worst) ideas
Adults PhilosophyFew individuals have influenced the world and many of today's thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece's greatest minds, including Aristotle.