Academic Earth is an excellent website devoted to presenting to the viewer a series of lectures from the world's top scholars from some of the best universities.

The site is broken down by subject and is very much worth serious examination. In essence, one can go back to school on some selected topics -- oh to be young again!

I'll be posting some selected lectures I have found interesting, and will continue to add any I think are relevant to the theme of this website.

Enjoy!

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Death

Shelly Kagan
Yale

From Academic Earth: There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life? Click here for the Academic Earth page on this course.

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Living a good life

Various professors

Stanford and Yale

Mixing specific lectures extracted from courses taught by various professors in various disciplines, Academic Earth uses playlists that when viewed as a whole form a unique course. This one, on living a good life.

From Academic Earth: Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Business on how to live a good life. Click here for the Academic Earth page on this course.

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More choices to come, but I'd encourage you to check the Academic Earth site yourself and explore!