Philosophy: Free Courses

Get free Philosophy courses from the world’s leading universities. You can download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. For more online courses, visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

  • A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes Video –Web Video - Marianne Talbot, Oxford University
  • Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art – iTunes – Web – James Grant, Oxford University
  • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - iTunes Video - Web Video – David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Ancient Philosophy – iTunes – David Ebrey, UC Berkeley
  • Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love - iTunes Video - Web Video – Professor David O’Connor, Notre Dame
  • Aristotle: Ethics – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Aristotle: Rhetoric – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Authority & the Individual: Six BBC Lectures - Web Site – Bertrand Russell, Cambridge
  • Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio –Web Video & Audio - Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Death – YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video –  Download Course – Shelly Kagan, Yale
  • Environmental Philosophy – iTunes Video - Web Video – Kenneth Sayre, Notre Dame
  • Existentialism in Literature & Film – iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • General Philosophy – iTunes – Web – Peter Millican, Oxford University
  • Hegel: The Philosophy of History – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Heidegger: Being and Time - Sean Dorrance Kelly – Harvard - RSS Feed – Web Site
  • Heidegger’s Being & Time – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Heideggers Being and Time, Division II – iTunes - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Hobbes: Leviathan and De Cive (1964) - Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes –Download Course, Steven B. Smith, Yale
  • Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? – YouTube - Web Site- Michael Sandel, Harvard
  • Kant – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio- Video/Audio on Web – Dan Robinson, Oxford
  • Later Heidegger – Web Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Walter Kaufmann Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre - Web Site
  • Kant’s Epistemology – iTunes – Dr Susan Stuarts, University of Glasgow
  • Man, God, and Society in Western Literature - iTunes Audio – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Medical Ethics – Web Audio – David Solomon, Notre Dame
  • Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1966) - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Morality and Modernity - Web Video – David Solomon, Notre Dame
  • Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Philosophy in Film and Other Media - iTunes – YouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Video/Audio on the Web – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
  • Philosophy of Language – iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of Love in the Western World – iTunes – YouTube – Irving Singer, MIT
  • Philosophy of Mind - iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Philosophy of Society – iTunes – John Searle, UC Berkeley
  • Plato Apology/Crito - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato: Gorgias – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: Laws – Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago.
  • Plato: Meno - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato, Protagoras  -Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Plato’s Republic – Web Site – Laurence Bloom, University of Georgia
  • Proust & Philosophy – Feed – Johns Hopkins
  • The Art of Living - Web Site – Team taught, Stanford
  • The Examined Life – iTunes – Greg Reihman, Lehigh University
  • The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats– Peter Adamson, King’s College London
  • The Moral Foundations of Politics - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- YouTube - Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro, Yale
  • The Nature of Mind – iTunes – John Joseph Campbell, UC Berkeley
  • The Secular and The Sacred – Web Site – Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard
  • Theory of Meaning – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video – John Joseph Campbell
  • Thucydides – Web Site - Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Truth & Subjectivity/The Culture Of The Self – Web Site – Michel Foucault, UC Berkeley
  • Vico: Seminar in Political Philosophy – Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago
  • Xenophon’s Oeconomicus - Web Site – Leo Strauss, U Chicago

For a full lineup of online courses, please visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

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