The BBC does produce some wonderful stuff. For the History of Ideas series, a series of excellent animations have been produced on a whole variety of topics. You can see them on the HoI pages, but Adobe Flash is needed, which I try to avoid. So I’ve gathered the YouTube links. Each theme contains four narrated animations about 2 minutes long.
Page 1: What Does it mean to be Me?
Page 2: What is Justice?
Page 3: How Do I Live A Good Life?
Page 4: Has Technology Changed Us?
Page 5: What Makes Me Human?
Page 6: How Did Everything Begin?
Page 7: What Does it Mean to be Free?
Page 8: Why are Things Beautiful?
Page 9: How Can I Know Wrong From Right?
H/T Open Culture
What Does it Mean to be Me?
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