Explain like I'm 5: Nietzche

Let's Think About... Peter Singer

a short video introduction:

Thought Experiments

Go here for the Thought Experiments. Have a play with some of them. Almost all are relevant to something in AS or A2. If you are currently an AS student, I want you to pay particular attention to Talking With God: The Euthyphro Dilemma - because we're going to be talking about that one. If you are currently an A2 student, I want you to pay particular attention to: Peter Singer and the Drowning Child. Finally, whoever you are, have a go at Staying Alive and note down whether you lived or died (and why)

Why Russell Didn't Believe In God

You can guess, perhaps:

Waking Life: the full movie

It's a bit mental, but is all about Philosophy...

Lake Of Fire

This is the full film (the bits with Singer and Chomsky are elsewhere in this blog...); very powerful, interesting stuff about the Abortion debate in the USA... Recommended. Sort of. It's very interesting and well made but obviously the topic matter is difficult...

Georges Bataille - Literature and Evil

Lex Luthor talks Existentialism

Some of the central ideas of Sartre's Existentialism discussed by Lex Luthor and some ridiculously large and pompous creature...

10 Philosophical Reasons For Animal Rights

A good summary of the area here...

Peter Singer and Noam Chomsky on Abortion

Go here and read the comments for some views on this...

Zoophilia and Bestiality

A controversial presentation on the rights and wrongs of Zoophilia:

A Twist On Animal Ethics

Article on anthropocentrism and animal ethics

Plato - The Republic

A Sparknotes summary here

Another summary here

Someone's thoughts and ideas on The Republic, book by book...

A slideshow on the allegory of the cave

Plato's Theory Of Forms by Philosophy Bro! A slightly unconventional, casual style but may appeal to some...

The Only Way Is Ethics

There are some good summaries here for several of the theories we cover in Moral Philosophy - this is designed for Religious Studies but works quite well for our specification.

Peter Singer

You'll need to know about this guy at some point. Here's a shortish interview with him.

Here's a whole bunch of posts on Singer/Animal Ethics.

And here he is on Evolution and Ethics

The Ethics Of Deliberate Handball

An article here which comes from the Philosophy/World Cup blog Minus The Shooting. Worth a look if you like football!

Zizek on the Fall of The Wall / Capitalism

Part 1



Part 2



Part 3

Morality and Doctor Who

Here is the scene that got me interested in Philosophy when I was about 6 or something...

And here The Doctor and Davros discuss morality...