sign in sign up
<<
Home , The Good Place

Links and Recommendations for Year 11 students Philosophy and other Big Questions

 What is Philosophy?- introduction to the topic using Crash Courses on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A_CAkYt3GY  Indiana Jones & Pascal's Wager: Crash Course Philosophy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S93jMOqF- oE&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&t=0s  Where Does Your Mind Reside?: Crash Course Philosophy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJROTXnmus&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6 MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&index=23  Determinism vs Free Will: Crash Course Philosophy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGtkDzELAI&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6M ZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&index=25  Mary's Room: A philosophical - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGYmiQkah4o  At what moment are you dead?- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/at-what-moment-are-you-dead-randall-hayes  Plato's Philosopher Kings- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALXsaT6bqL0&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=39  Wittgenstein's Beetle in a Box Analogy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x86hLtOkou8&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=46  Ayn Rand on Selfishness- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbfy6_fMBiw&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9BiM exLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=26

Ethics and Doing Right or Wrong

 Moral Luck: Crash Course Philosophy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpDSPVv8lUE&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6M ZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&index=40  & Virtue Theory: Crash Course Philosophy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvtOWEXDIQ&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6M ZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&index=39  What Is a Good Life?: Crash Course Philosophy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra1Dmz- 5HjU&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR&index=47  What really matters at the end of life (BJ Miller)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbSsILLh28  My son was a Columbine shooter (Sue Klebold)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlnrFpCu0c  I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace (Zak Ebrahim)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyR-K2CZIHQ  Science can answer moral questions (Sam Harris)- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/science-can-answer-moral-questions-sam-harris  ’s Axe- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uUEaeqFog&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=10  The Is/Ought Problem- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7yXG2aJdY&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=12  The Good Place: Existentialism- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvfLU4kY_8A  The Good Place: Utilitarianism- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuVreCbQOwc  The Good Place: Psychological Egoism- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtpIsRk8tzg  The Good Place: Deontology- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_XuJTOEJY&t=8s  Effective Altruism- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc

Thought Experiments and Thunks

 Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p5Oi4wPVVo  The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir (TedEd)- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-meaning-of-life-according-to-simone-de- beauvoir-iseult-gillespie  Would you sacrifice one person to save five? (The )- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/would-you-sacrifice-one-person-to-save-five- eleanor-nelsen  Buddhist Four Noble Truths- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK- MbNj83NM&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9BiMexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=27  Can you solve hat riddle? (TedEd)- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-prisoner-hat-riddle-alex- gendler  Is Maths discovered or invented?- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-math-discovered-or-invented-jeff-dekofsky  How do you know that you exist?- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-you-know-you-exist-james-zucker  Can you outsmart this logical fallacy?- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-outsmart-this-logical-fallacy-alex- gendler  Can you solve the three gods riddle?- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-three-gods-riddle-alex-gendler  The World Famous Violinist Dilemma- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br59pD583Io  The Veil of Ignorance- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GDEaJtbq4  The Life You Can Save- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGczdp0SE0c&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=9  Rewiring your Brain?- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARooFFot94&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=21  Esse est Percipi - ('To be is to be perceived')- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iBryNYU49Y&list=PLLiykcLllCgPE0q9Bi MexLFj-1rq9GUwX&index=47

Films & TV Series that are Philosophical and make you think

 The Good Place ( & All4)  Lost (Amazon)  Westworld (Sky)  Black Mirror (Netflix)  A Short Stay in Switzerland  Gattaca  The Matrix (all 3 films)  Minority Report  The Truman Show  Cloud Atlas  Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049  Fight Club   1984