MOVIE

FindCenter AddIcon

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.

149 min

FindCenter Video Image

A History of Western Philosophy

Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.

Book
Bertrand Russell
1967
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
02:00

Bertrand Russell: Message to Future Generations

In 1959, Bertrand Russell, the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, mathematician and peace activist was just short of his 87th birthday, when he gave wide-ranging interviews to the BBC and the CBC.

Video
Bertrand Russell
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics.

Book
Robert C. Koons, Timothy Pickavance
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
10:51

Introduction to Epistemology

This lecture introduces epistemology, explains the questions such a field investigates, look what it means to obtain knowledge, and why the need for such a field arose in the first place.

Video
Aristotle
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
09:34

Metaethics: Crash Course Philosophy #32

We begin our unit on ethics with a look at metaethics. Hank explains three forms of moral realism—moral absolutism, and cultural relativism, including the difference between descriptive and normative cultural relativism—and moral subjectivism, which is a form of moral antirealism.

Video
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives is the first book to offer students the full breadth of philosophical issues that are raised by the end of life.

Book
Travis Timmerman, Michael Cholbi
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
07:26

Existentialism and the Internet—Why We’re Getting More Anxious

It is not as if the internet and age of information is bad, but it’s not as if it’s good. In this video, we explore why during an era where there is more information than ever about how to live and be happy, we are more confused and less happy than ever, in recent history.

Video
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Kierkegaard on Why Anxiety Powers Creativity Rather Than Hindering It

“Because it is possible to create—creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self…—one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”

Article
Maria Popova
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information.

Book
Franz Kafka
1999
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work.

Book
Friedrich Nietzsche
1961
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Existentialism