Free Philosophy Courses

These are the 60 lectures from the Teaching Company course The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 2nd Edition, featuring principal lecturers Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff.

This course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature...

The Existentialism in Literature and Film course, taught by professor Hubert L. Dreyfus, cuts right to the roots of existentialist thought, looking at the works of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, and examining Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov in depth.

One of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, Being and Time is both a systematization of the existential insights of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and a radicalization of Husserl's phenomenological account of intentionality.

This course is a scholarly treatment of the Bible as literature that examines the many literary and cultural themes that originate in the Bible.

In this complete, 12-lecture video course from Harvard University, Professor Michael Sandel presents his popular course which explores difficult moral dilemmas and how we respond to them.

The complete lectures from Dr. Arthur Holmes' influential course, "A History of Philosophy."

Oxford's Marianne Talbot hosts a brief introduction to the major philosophers, and their contribution to the Western philosophical tradition in this series of lectures.

This Intro to Humanities course entitled "The Literature of Crisis" explores crisis when it occurs at the personal, familial, and societal levels through six major works of literature.

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason stands as a touchstone work in modern philosophy, and in this free course provided by Oxford, Professor Daniel Robinson will bring his wit, enthusiasm and deep scholarship to bear on this seminal, though admittedly difficult book.